HP Data Protector Notebook Extension Policy Server LogCopyOperation Remote SQL Injection Vulnerabilty

November 7th, 2011
ZDI-11-322 ZDI-CAN-1228

CVE ID

CVE-2011-3160

CVSS Score

7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Vendors

Hewlett-Packard

Affected Products

Data Protector

Vulnerability Details


This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of HP Data Protector Notebook Extension. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The flaw exists within the dpnepolicyservice component which exposes a DPNECentral Web Service on TCP port 80. This service contains a method LogCopyOperation which does not properly validate or sanitize the copyStatus field of a user supplied request. This value is later used when constructing a query fulfill provided request. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary queries under the context of the service.

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-c03058866

Disclosure Timeline

  • 2011-06-03 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2011-11-07 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

Andrea Micalizzi aka rgod

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