Advisory Details

April 27th, 2016

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Protector EXEC_BAR User Name Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2016-2005
CVSS SCORE	10.0, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
AFFECTED VENDORS	Hewlett Packard Enterprise
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Data Protector
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Protector. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within OmniInet.exe which listens by default on TCP port 5555. When parsing a malformed user name field in an EXEC_BAR request, the process blindly copies user supplied data into a fixed-length stack buffer. A remote attacker can abuse this to execute remote 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://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay/?docId=emr_na-c05085988
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2015-12-22 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2016-04-27 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	IntR0Py

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