CVE-2025-31978 PUBLISHED

HCL BigFix Service Management (SM) does not adequately sanitize or safely render

Assigner: HCL
Reserved: 01.04.2025 Published: 06.05.2026 Updated: 06.05.2026

HCL BigFix Service Management (SM) does not adequately sanitize or safely render spreadsheet files (CSV, XLS, XLSX) before processing or distributing them. An attacker could populate data fields which, when saved to a CSV file, may attempt information exfiltration or other malicious activity when automatically executed by the spreadsheet software. Note that current versions of Excel warn users of untrusted content.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.6

Product Status

Vendor HCL Software
Product BigFix Service Management (SM)
Versions Default: unaffected
  • Version 23 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-201: Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data CWE