Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLure user to AION web page
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DeliveryDeliver injected script via separate input flaw
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ExploitBrowser loads script with no CSP restriction
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ExecutionScript runs in user's session
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ImpactSteal session data or perform actions
Vulnerability Assessment
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| Exploitation Conditions | The missing CSP header has no direct impact by itself - exploitation requires a separate, independently exploitable content-injection or Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in HCL AION whose payload would otherwise have been blocked or constrained by a CSP. Limiting factors: a victim must load the affected AION web interface in a browser, a distinct injection vector must already exist, and the CVSS AC:H plus C:L/I:N/A:N profile indicates only partial confidentiality exposure under these chained conditions rather than standalone compromise. |
| Impact | This is a low-severity, defense-in-depth hardening gap rather than a directly exploitable flaw. The CVSS 3.1 score of 3.7 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N) reflects that the missing Content-Security-Policy header provides no impact on its own - it only weakens a browser-side mitigation that would otherwise reduce the blast radius of a separate injection (XSS) vulnerability. High attack complexity (AC:H) and the fact that only a low confidentiality impact (C:L) with no integrity or availability impact are claimed signal that exploitation requires another, independent flaw to actually be present and triggered. No EPSS score, KEV listing, or POC was provided in the input: there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active exploitation. This is a genuine but low-priority item - remediate as part of routine security-header hardening, not as an emergency. The CWE (CWE-1032, incomplete/ineffective access control via missing header) is consistent with the description and the 'XSS' tag reflects the class of attack CSP is meant to mitigate, not a confirmed XSS in AION itself. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | Because AION omits the Content-Security-Policy response header, a browser will not restrict the origins from which scripts and other resources load, so if an attacker can inject markup through a separate (not-yet-identified) input-handling flaw, injected JavaScript executes without CSP as a backstop. No public proof-of-concept was provided, and exploitation depends on the existence of a distinct injection vector plus a victim loading the affected page in a browser. The high attack complexity reflects this dependency on a chained condition rather than standalone exploitation. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 01, 2026
Missing Content-Security-Policy response headers in the HCL AION web interface remove the browser-enforced allowlist that restricts where scripts, styles, and other resources may be loaded from, degrading a key defense-in-depth control against cross-site scripting (CWE-1032, security misconfiguration). The gap has no standalone exploit path: an attacker would first need a separate, independently exploitable content-injection or XSS flaw in AION, and the assessed vector (CVSS 3.1, 3.7 base, AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N) caps the resulting impact at limited confidentiality exposure with no integrity or availability effect. No public exploit code exists and no active exploitation has been confirmed at time of analysis, so this should be treated as a low-severity hardening finding rather than a directly exploitable vulnerability.
RemediationAI
There is no code patch to install for a missing header; remediation is a configuration change on the AION web tier - inject a Content-Security-Policy response header at the reverse proxy, load balancer, or application layer, starting with a restrictive baseline such as default-src 'self'; script-src 'self'; object-src 'none'; base-uri 'none'; frame-ancestors 'self'. If AION relies on inline scripts or styles, a strict 'self' policy will break the UI, so use nonce- or hash-based script-src directives or stage the policy in Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only mode first to collect violation reports before enforcing, accepting the trade-off that report-only mode blocks nothing in the interim. Confirm the applicable fix path with HCL via KB0134082 (https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0134082), since a specific patched version was not disclosed in the available data. Note that CSP is only a mitigating layer: it does not eliminate the underlying injection issues it constrains, so any separate XSS defect in AION must still be identified and fixed, and interim compensating controls such as restricting network access to the AION interface to trusted segments and enforcing output encoding remain worthwhile but do not substitute for the header.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The Content-Security-Policy (CSP) HTTP response header is a browser-side policy mechanism that tells the user agent which origins may supply scripts, stylesheets, frames, fonts, and other subresources for a given document. When CSP is absent, the browser applies no such restriction, so any script that reaches the page - whether via a reflected, stored, or DOM-based injection - executes with the full privileges of the AION origin, with no nonce or hash gating and no object-src/base-uri restrictions to blunt escalation. The CWE assigned is CWE-1032, the OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A6 mapping for Security Misconfiguration (root class CWE-16 Configuration), which classifies this as a configuration omission rather than a memory-safety or logic defect. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:hcl_software:aion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* uses a wildcard version string, indicating HCL has not scoped the advisory to a specific release line, so all AION deployments should be treated as potentially affected pending vendor confirmation. The assessed vector differs from the published one on user interaction (UI:R versus UI:N), reflecting that a victim must actually load the affected AION interface in a browser for the missing header to matter, and the AC:H rating captures the requirement that a distinct injection vector already exist and be successfully chained for any real impact.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Network-facing web header; AC:H and UI:R because impact only materializes when a separate injection is chained and a user loads the page; only low confidentiality impact, no integrity/availability effect.
Primary rating from Vendor (HCL).
CVSS VectorVendor: HCL
DescriptionCVE.org
HCL AION is affected by a vulnerability in which the Content-Security-Policy (CSP) HTTP response header is not configured. CSP helps prevent attacks such as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) by restricting the sources from which scripts, styles, and other resources can be loaded. The absence of this header may reduce the effectiveness of browser-based security controls, potentially resulting in unintended behavior or negative security impacts under certain conditions.
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Attack Technique
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Aion versions up to 2.0 is affected by incorrect permission assignment for critical resource (CVSS 5.5).
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