CVE-2025-0255

HighRCE

Published: 24 March 2025

Published

24 March 2025

Modified

11 April 2025

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v3.1 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 70.0th percentile

Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-0255 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Hcltechsw Hcl Launch. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 30.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Deeper analysis

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.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-7995

Vulnerability details

HCL DevOps Deploy / HCL Launch could allow a remote privileged authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system by sending specially crafted input containing special elements.

CWE(s): CWE-78

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

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.

attack.mitre.org →

T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter Execution

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

attack.mitre.org →

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