CVE-2025-55278 (GCVE-0-2025-55278)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-05 22:44
Modified
2025-11-06 21:20
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-613 - Insufficient Session Expiration
  • CWE-347 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Summary
Improper authentication in the API authentication middleware of HCL DevOps Loop allows authentication tokens to be accepted without proper validation of their expiration and cryptographic signature. As a result, an attacker could potentially use expired or tampered tokens to gain unauthorized access to sensitive resources and perform actions with elevated privileges.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
HCL Software DevOps Loop Version: 1.0.2
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