Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability · CVE-2026-21806

HCL BigFix Service Management is affected by an Administrative Session Concurrency vulnerability.

Published Sep 18, 2026 · catalog updated Oct 14, 2026 · bigfix service management

Check if you run it

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2026-21806. EPSS is 0.20%. Act only if a listed version of bigfix service management is installed.

Gaps on this record

  • No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
  • No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
Severity
Critical9.8
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.20%
Remediation
Advisory link
Affected products
cpe hcltech/bigfix service management

HCL BigFix Service Management is affected by an Administrative Session Concurrency vulnerability. The application allows multiple simultaneous authenticated sessions for the same administrative account, which could enable an unauthorized attacker to predict or hijack valid session identifiers. Successful exploitation allows an attacker to compromise affected administrative sessions and execute actions with full privileged user permissions.

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  • cpe hcltech/bigfix service management27

How to fix CVE-2026-21806

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2026-21806. EPSS is 0.20%. Act only if a listed version of bigfix service management is installed.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with hcltech/bigfix service management 27. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

CWE-557. EPSS 0.20%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

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No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Sep 18, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Detected

    HCL BigFix Service Management is affected by an Administrative Session Concurrency vulnerability. The application allows multiple simultaneous authenticated sessions for the same administrative account, which could enable an unauthorized attacker to predict or hijack valid session identifiers. Successful exploitation allows an attacker to compromise affected administrative sessions and execute act

  2. Oct 14, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Updated

    HCL BigFix Service Management is affected by an Administrative Session Concurrency vulnerability. The application allows multiple simultaneous authenticated sessions for the same administrative account, which could enable an unauthorized attacker to predict or hijack valid session identifiers. Successful exploitation allows an attacker to compromise affected administrative sessions and execute act

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2026-21806

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2026-21806

    30-day exploitation probability 0.2%

    first.org
  • NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2026-21806

    HCL BigFix Service Management is affected by an Administrative Session Concurrency vulnerability. The application allows multiple simultaneous authenticated sessions for the same administrative account, which could enable an unauthorized attacker to predict or hijack valid sessio

    nvd.nist.gov

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.