Advisory Details

November 24th, 2013

HP Application Lifecycle Management GossipService SOAP Request Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2013-4836
CVSS SCORE	7.5, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AFFECTED VENDORS	Hewlett-Packard
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Application Lifecycle Management
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of HP Application Lifecycle Management. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the web service named GossipServiceSoapBinding. This web service is vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote attacker can leverage this to gain remote code execution under the context of the postgres user.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Hewlett-Packard has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay/?docId=emr_na-c03969436
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2013-02-22 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2013-11-24 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Andrea Micalizzi aka rgod

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