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

January 29th, 2020
ZDI-19-1037 ZDI-CAN-8935

CVE ID

CVE-2020-24646

CVSS Score

9.8 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Vendors

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Affected Products

Intelligent Management Center

Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Intelligent Management Center. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the handling of the val1 parameter provided to the tftpserver component. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of 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 code in the context of SYSTEM.

Additional Details

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=a00093539en_us

Disclosure Timeline

  • 2019-08-07 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2020-01-29 - Coordinated public release of advisory
  • 2021-03-02 - Advisory Updated

Credit

Dusan Stevanovic

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