Hewlett-Packard Intelligent Management Center RssServlet Information Disclosure Vulnerability

April 9th, 2013
ZDI-13-062 ZDI-CAN-1661

CVE ID

CVE-2012-5207

CVSS Score

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

Affected Vendors

Hewlett-Packard

Affected Products

Intelligent Management Center

Vulnerability Details


This vulnerability allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information on vulnerable installations of HP Intelligent Management Center. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the RssServlet servlet. This servlet suffers from a XML external entity injection vulnerability which allows any file readable by SYSTEM to be disclosed. By abusing this behavior an attacker can disclose administrative credentials and possibly leverage this situation to achieve remote code execution.

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-c03689276

Disclosure Timeline

  • 2012-11-19 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2013-04-09 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

Andrea Micalizzi aka rgod

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