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HCL AION EUVDEUVD-2026-90966

| CVE-2026-21833 LOW
OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A6 - Security Misconfiguration (CWE-1032)
2026-10-01 HCL GHSA-8876-cgqf-cw39
3.7
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: HCL
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Lure user to AION web page
  2. Delivery
    Deliver injected script via separate input flaw
  3. Exploit
    Browser loads script with no CSP restriction
  4. Execution
    Script runs in user's session
  5. Impact
    Steal session data or perform actions

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
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.

Monitor Track and reassess. Why: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9).
No patch listed yet 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – 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.

Affected VersionsENISA

AION Version 2.5.0

Affected Packages

euvd aion_version no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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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

Vendor (HCL) PRIMARY 3.7 LOW
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
vuln.today AI 3.1 LOW

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.

3.1 AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (HCL).

CVSS VectorVendor: HCL

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

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.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 91% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
niche enterprise HCL application, limited industry-specific deployment footprint
Data Quality
5 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity LOW
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Defer
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Low
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

18
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +18
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.

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