CVE-2025-52643 Code injection in AION
Attackers can execute arbitrary code or modify data by uploading specially crafted files due to insufficient sandbox isolation in HCL AION.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-52643?
CVE-2025-52643 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in HCL AION, published on 16 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
HCL AION is affected by a vulnerability where untrusted file parsing operations are not executed within a properly isolated sandbox environment. This may expose the application to potential security risks, including unintended behaviour or integrity impact when processing specially crafted files.
Weakness: CWE-693
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-52643?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Hcltech Aion.
How do I fix CVE-2025-52643?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-52643 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.
Is CVE-2025-52643 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-52643 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in HCL AION
- CVE-2025-52650 HCL AION is susceptible to Inline script execution allowed in CSP vulnerability
- CVE-2025-52632 HCL AION is susceptible to Missing Secure Attribute in Encrypted Session (SSL) Cookie vulnerability
- CVE-2025-52644 HCL AION is affected by a vulnerability where certain user actions are not adequately audited or logged.
- CVE-2025-52627 HCL AION is susceptible to Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
- CVE-2025-52624 HCL AION is susceptible to Bypass of the script allow list configuration vulnerability
Sources
Also known as GHSA-5vm9-9xjm-4755.