Advisory Details

November 2nd, 2015

Hewlett-Packard Vertica Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2015-6867
CVSS SCORE	7.5, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AFFECTED VENDORS	Hewlett-Packard
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Vertica
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION	Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['19853']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Hewlett-Packard Vertica. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the vertica-udx-zygote process, which listens on a random port in the ephemeral range. This process accepts an unauthenticated command packet to execute an arbitrary command under the context of dbadmin.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Hewlett-Packard has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay/?docId=emr_na-c04873095
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2015-05-06 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2015-11-02 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	kjczi

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