Advisory Details

May 3rd, 2017

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Intelligent Management Center imcwlandm UserName Stack-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2017-5805
CVSS SCORE	10.0, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
AFFECTED VENDORS	Hewlett Packard Enterprise
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Intelligent Management Center
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Intelligent Management Center. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the HPE iMC Server service, which listens on UDP port 6666 by default. When parsing the UserName attribute, the process does not properly validate the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length stack-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of SYSTEM.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Hewlett Packard Enterprise has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03738en_us
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2017-03-01 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2017-05-03 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	sztivi

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