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CVE-2025-31978

Published: May 6, 2026

Modified: May 6, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

4.6

MEDIUM

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

HCL Software

BigFix Service Management (SM)

affected
23

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-201

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

References

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