CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-42197

Plaintext Storage of a Password

Published: Dec 11, 2025 | Modified: Dec 11, 2025

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42197
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/256.html

HCL Workload Scheduler stores user credentials in plain text which can be read by a local user.

Weakness

The product stores a password in plaintext within resources such as memory or files.

Potential Mitigations

References

https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article\u0026sysparm_article=KB0127448

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