[BESAdmin-Announcements] Content Release: Server Automation published 2026-08-04

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

The BigFix Team is pleased to announce the release of version 9.5.77 of
BigFix Server Automation.

The main reasons to upgrade to this release are as follows:

 Server Automation

Features:

Failover Cluster patching and Managing Always On Availability Groups (AOAG)
on SQL Server.

DAs:

KB0130492 : Find a alternative to WMIC commands which is there to execute
to find out how many instances of PDS/PE is running for multinode as well
as for Single Node.

KB0131309 : SA REST:Backward Compatibility: Server Automation plans not
running consistently.

KB0131650 : VDI environment : SA script error with no real description of
error other then script error.

KB0130089 : Automation plan sent email with the incorrect subject.

KB0130770 : Prerequisite for Automation Plan Engine Multinode mentioned in
the documentation is incorrect.

KB0131302 : The submission of the plan executed via REST API fails when a
task of any step is changed.

KB0131794 : "Fixlet ID# 717 - Create Snapshot" documentation link is not
working.

KB0132060 : Problems when using Task 104 from Server Automation when using
VMware Cloud Plugin

Security enhancements

CVE-2026-42044:INC-2026-157: affecting axios (npm) - upgrade to 1.16.0 or
later

CVE-2026-1188: L2 - Java Security vulnerabilities associated with
Management Extender

CVE-2026-4800:  INC-2026-120:HIGH:affecting lodash (npm)

CVE-2026-4867: High: path-to-regexp-0.1.12.tgz

CVE-2026-33532: affecting yaml(npm)

CVE-2026-13149:brace-expansion-1.1.13.tgz

CVE-2026-12143:form-data-4.0.5.tgz

CVE-2026-59869:js-yaml-4.1.1.tgz

CVE-2025-7962 : jakarta.mail.1.6.5.jar

Useful links

BigFix Server Automation Documentation:
https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/lifecycle/lifecycle_sa.html
https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/lifecycle/lifecycle_sa.html



– HCL BigFix – Lifecycle Team
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