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CVE-2025-31978

🔶 medium
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Summary

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.

CVSS Score
4.6
Medium
EPSS Score
0.0
Exploit Probability
Published Date
2026-05-06
First Seen: 2026-05-10
📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Lower Risk - more severe than 13.0% of all 330,193 vulnerabilities in our database.

#287,277
Below average severity
Severity Percentile
🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: May 6, 2026
🔍 Exploitation Status
None
No known exploits
⚙️ Automatable
NO
Requires human interaction
💥 Technical Impact
Partial
Limited system impact
SSVC data provided by CISA
Last Modified 2026-05-07
Source NVD 🔗
CVSS Vector 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE IDs (Weakness Types)
CWE-201

📦 Affected Products 1

Vendor Product Status Affected Versions
hcltech bigfix_service_management Affected
v23.0

🔗 References 1

https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&s...
Vendor Advisory

🔗 Related CVEs 6

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CVE-2025-31985 ℹ️ low 3.7 0.0 HCL BigFix Service Management (SM) is affected by a security misconfiguration due to a missing or insecure “X-Content-... 2026-05-20
CVE-2025-31957 ℹ️ low 2.6 0.0 HHCL BigFix Service Management (SM) is affected by a Cross‑Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability. This could lead... 2026-05-06
CVE-2025-31959 ℹ️ low 3.5 0.0 HCL BigFix Service Management (SM) application fails to strip EXIF metadata from uploaded images. This could lead to co... 2026-05-06
CVE-2025-31975 ℹ️ low 2.6 0.0 HCL BigFix Service Management (SM) is affected by an Information Disclosure – Server Banner issue was identified. Expo... 2026-05-06
CVE-2025-31976 🔶 medium 4.8 0.0 HCL BigFix Service Management (SM) is vulnerable to insufficiently protected credentials for a short duration while comm... 2026-05-06
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