Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-0255

High

Published: 24 March 2025

Published
24 March 2025
Modified
11 April 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0060 69.6th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may abuse command and script interpreters to execute commands, scripts, or binaries.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-0255 is an OS command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) affecting HCL DevOps Deploy and HCL Launch. It enables a remote privileged authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system by sending specially crafted input containing special elements. The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.2 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating high severity due to its potential for complete system compromise through network-accessible exploitation with low complexity.

A remote attacker with high privileges (such as an authenticated administrative user) can exploit this flaw without user interaction. Successful exploitation grants the attacker the ability to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, including full arbitrary command execution on the underlying system.

HCL has published a support knowledge base article (KB0119060) detailing the issue, available at https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0119060, which security practitioners should consult for mitigation guidance and patch information.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Affected Products

hcltechsw
hcl devops deploy
8.1.0 · 8.0.0.0 — 8.0.1.5
hcltechsw
hcl launch
7.0.0.0 — 7.0.5.26 · 7.1.0.0 — 7.1.2.22 · 7.2.0.0 — 7.2.3.15

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter Execution
Adversaries may abuse command and script interpreters to execute commands, scripts, or binaries.
Why these techniques?

OS command injection (CWE-78) in network-accessible HCL DevOps app directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications for initial access (T1190) and arbitrary command execution via interpreters (T1059).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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