Content Release: Server Automation published 2026-08-04

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:

– HCL BigFix – Lifecycle Team