Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
HCL IntelliOps Event Management 1.4.0 may omit information needed to audit workflows. If an attacker already accesses the application, missing records could make suspicious activity harder to detect, investigate, and reconstruct. The cited impact is limited to auditability and workflow integrity; confidentiality and availability impacts are not identified.
Executive priority
Treat this as a moderate operational-security issue. Prioritize confirmation of any 1.4.0 deployments and review HCL guidance. Accelerate action where IEM supports sensitive workflows or where incomplete audit trails would materially delay breach detection, regulatory reporting, or forensic investigation.
Technical view
CVE-2025-62306 is a CWE-221 information-omission weakness in HCL IEM 1.4.0. The CVSS 3.1 vector indicates network reachability, low complexity, required low privileges, no user interaction, changed scope, and low integrity impact. The supplied score is 5.0, rated medium.
Likely exposure
Exposure is indicated for HCL IEM version 1.4.0. The bundle marks other versions unaffected by default, but provides no deployment, configuration, or component-level conditions. Internet-facing or broadly accessible instances may present greater practical risk because the weakness requires application access.
Exploitation context
The supplied record is not in KEV, and no cited evidence establishes active exploitation or a public exploit. Exploitation requires low-privileged access according to the CVSS vector. The primary concern is impaired detection and incident response after access, rather than direct data theft or service disruption.
Researcher notes
The record describes information omission affecting workflow auditability and observability. The title mentions multiple vulnerabilities, but the supplied CVE details support only this specific weakness. No exact omitted events, vulnerable workflow, patch version, workaround, or exploitation evidence is provided, limiting technical validation and remediation certainty.
Mitigation direction
- Inventory HCL IEM deployments and identify any running version 1.4.0.
- Review the HCL advisory for supported remediation or upgrade guidance.
- Restrict application access to necessary users and trusted network paths.
- Supplement application logs with identity, network, and infrastructure telemetry.
- Preserve relevant logs centrally with access controls and retention appropriate for investigations.
Validation and detection
- Confirm deployed HCL IEM versions using authoritative asset and configuration records.
- Test whether security-relevant workflow actions produce complete, attributable audit records.
- Verify logs reach centralized monitoring without missing fields or unexpected gaps.
- Review low-privileged accounts and remove unnecessary application access.
- Confirm incident responders can correlate application activity with identity and network telemetry.
Public sources used
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 5 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
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SSVC decision data
CVSS vector scores
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N3.11.4HCLVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
5MediumVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Vulnerability timeline
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- CVE reservedCVE Program
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- CVE publishedCVE Program
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- CVE updatedCVE Program
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ADP provider summaries
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0132456CVE reference, HCL
Products and packages named in the record
CWE details
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Information Loss or Omission
Information Loss or Omission represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.