What is CVE-2024-42189?

CVE-2024-42189 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hcl Software Bigfix Platform, classified under CWE-1287. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-04-15.

How severe is CVE-2024-42189?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Hcl Software Bigfix Platform

CVE-2024-42189

HCL BigFix Web Reports might be subject to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack, due to a potentially weak validation of an API parameter.

Published 2025-04-15 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (22.8th percentile), scored 2026-11-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 23rd percentile — 22.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Hcl Software Bigfix Platform — versions 10.0 - 10.0.12; 11.0.0 - 11.0.3
Hcltech Bigfix Platform

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-1287

References

support.hcl-software.com/csm (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-42189?: CVE-2024-42189 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hcl Software Bigfix Platform, classified under CWE-1287. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-04-15.
How severe is CVE-2024-42189?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.