CVE-2025-31981 PUBLISHED

HCL BigFix Service Management (SM) Discovery is vulnerable to unenforced encryption

Assigner: HCL
Reserved: 01.04.2025 Published: 21.04.2026 Updated: 21.04.2026

HCL BigFix Service Management (SM) Discovery is vulnerable to unenforced encryption due to port 80 (HTTP) being open, allowing unencrypted access. An attacker with access to the network traffic can sniff packets from the connection and uncover the data.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 5.3

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	Low
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	None
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

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

References

https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0127605

Problem Types

CWE-319 Cleartext transmission of sensitive information CWE