CVE-2025-55269
Published: 26 March 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-55269 is a medium-severity Weak Password Requirements (CWE-521) vulnerability in Hcltech Aftermarket Cloud. Its CVSS base score is 4.2 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Brute Force (T1110); ranked at the 5.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-7 (Unsuccessful Logon Attempts) and IA-5 (Authenticator Management).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly requires authenticator management with sufficient strength of mechanism to enforce strong password policies, preventing weak passwords vulnerable to guessing.
Enforces limits on unsuccessful logon attempts and account lockouts, directly mitigating brute-force attacks enabled by the weak password policy.
Generates audit records for authentication events, enabling detection of brute-force attempts through patterns of failed logons.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Weak password policy (CWE-521) directly enables password guessing and brute-force attacks against accounts.
NVD Description
HCL Aftermarket DPC is affected by Weak Password Policy vulnerability, which makes it easier for attackers to guess weak passwords or use brute-force techniques to gain unauthorized access to user accounts.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-55269 is a Weak Password Policy vulnerability (CWE-521) affecting HCL Aftermarket DPC software. Published on 2026-03-26 with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.2 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L), it enables attackers to more easily guess weak passwords or perform brute-force attacks, leading to unauthorized access to user accounts.
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network by unauthenticated attackers (PR:N) requiring high attack complexity (AC:H) and user interaction (UI:R), such as tricking a user into actions that facilitate password guessing or brute-force attempts. Successful exploitation results in low-impact outcomes, including limited disclosure of confidential information (C:L) and low disruption to availability (A:L), with no integrity impact (I:N) and unchanged scope (S:U).
HCL Software has published mitigation guidance in its support knowledge base article at https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0129793, which security practitioners should consult for specific remediation steps, such as enforcing stronger password policies.
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