CVE-2025-31959 | HCL BigFix Service Management (SM) application fails to strip EXIF metadata from uploaded images.

HCL BigFix Service Management (SM) application fails to strip EXIF metadata from uploaded images. This could lead to confidentiality and privacy risks if sensitive location information is unintentionally shared. .

Published: 2026-05-06 Last update: 2026-05-07 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-31959 is rated Low Risk (16.5/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.03%). Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-31959

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 2026-05-07 — 0.03% —

Full EPSS history (1 record total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-31959

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-2025-31959

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2025-31959

GHSA-4w64-m6x6-926r · Severity: low — HCL BigFix Service Management (SM) application fails to strip EXIF metadata from uploaded images....

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-31959

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
hcltech bigfix_service_management 23.0 cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:bigfix_service_management:23.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-31959

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