CVE-2021-27762medium

CVE-2021-27762: medium-severity vulnerability in HCL Software BigFix Platform

HCL BigFix Platform is affected by misconfigured security-related HTTP headers

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 4.7epss 0.7%
In short

The HCL BigFix Platform web interface is missing or incorrectly configured security headers in its HTTP responses. These headers help protect against common web attacks like clickjacking and data injection, so their absence weakens browser-level security protections.

Technical detail

The vulnerability stems from missing or misconfigured HTTP security headers (such as X-Frame-Options, Content-Security-Policy, X-Content-Type-Options) in web responses from the HCL BigFix Platform. An attacker can exploit this through client-side attacks (e.g., clickjacking, MIME-sniffing) if the application lacks proper header enforcement, affecting users who interact with the platform in a browser.

Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.
Misconfigured security-related HTTP headers: Several security-related headers were missing or mis-configured on the web responses
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N