Hewlett-Packard Power Manager Administration Web Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

December 16th, 2010
ZDI-10-292 ZDI-CAN-697

CVE ID

CVE-2010-4113

CVSS Score

10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Vendors

Hewlett-Packard

Affected Products

Power Manager

Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Hewlett-Packard Power Manager. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists in the handling of URL parameters when posting to the login form of the web based management web server. Proper bounds checking is not applied when parsing the Login variable which can result in an exploitable stack overflow. Successful exploitation can lead to complete system compromise under the SYSTEM credentials.

Additional Details

Hewlett-Packard has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02239581

Disclosure Timeline

  • 2010-06-03 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2010-12-16 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

Tenable Network Security
Andrea Micalizzi aka rgod
SilentSignal
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous

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