# CVE-2025-52616: HCL Unica 12.1.10 is affected by an exposure of sensitive information

> An attacker can access sensitive system information in HCL Unica to plan further attacks against the application.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-9qjj-cv26-vxfw

## What is CVE-2025-52616?

CVE-2025-52616 is a medium-severity vulnerability in HCL Software Unica, published on 12 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

HCL Unica 12.1.10 can expose sensitive system information.  An attacker could use this information to form an attack plan by leveraging known vulnerabilities in the application.

Weakness: CWE-497 (Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-52616?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Hcltech Unica.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-52616?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-52616 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-52616 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-52616 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in HCL Software Unica

- [CVE-2025-62319](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-62319/): Boolean-Based SQL Injection in Multiple Unica Components (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-37497](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-37497/): An XML External Entity (XXE) Injection Vulnerability affects HCL Unica Platform (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2023-37498](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-37498/): HCL Unica Platform is vulnerable to a privilege escalation by unauthorized group assignation (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2023-37499](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-37499/): A Persistent Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affects HCL Unica Platform (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2023-37500](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-37500/): A Persistent Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affects HCL Unica Platform (high 8.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-52616 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-52616 is a medium-severity vulnerability in HCL Software Unica, published on 12 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-52616 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: HCL Software Unica. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-52616/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-52616/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-52616
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52616
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-52616

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-52616/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.