CVE-2024-42208 | HCL Connections is vulnerable to an information disclosure vulnerability

HCL Connections is vulnerable to an information disclosure vulnerability which could allow a user to obtain sensitive information they are not entitled to, caused by improper handling of request data.

Published: 2025-04-04 Last update: 2025-10-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2024-42208 is rated Low Risk (17.9/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.21%). Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-42208

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.32% 0.21% -0.11%
2 2026-05-17 0.22% 0.32% +0.10%
3 2026-05-15 — 0.22% —

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-42208

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
3.5 3.1 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.1 1.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-42208

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-42208

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
hcltech connections 7.0 cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:connections:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
hcltech connections 8.0 cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:connections:8.0:cumulative_release1:*:*:*:*:*:*
hcltech connections 8.0 cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:connections:8.0:cumulative_release2:*:*:*:*:*:*
hcltech connections 8.0 cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:connections:8.0:cumulative_release3:*:*:*:*:*:*
hcltech connections 8.0 cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:connections:8.0:cumulative_release4:*:*:*:*:*:*
hcltech connections 8.0 cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:connections:8.0:cumulative_release5:*:*:*:*:*:*
hcltech connections 8.0 cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:connections:8.0:cumulative_release6:*:*:*:*:*:*
hcltech connections 8.0 cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:connections:8.0:cumulative_release7:*:*:*:*:*:*
hcltech connections 8.0 cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:connections:8.0:cumulative_release8:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2024-42208

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