Advisory Details

August 11th, 2017

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Intelligent Management Center select Expression Language Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2017-12499
CVSS SCORE	9.0, AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
AFFECTED VENDORS	Hewlett Packard Enterprise
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Intelligent Management Center
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Intelligent Management Center. Although authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability, the existing authentication mechanism can be bypassed. The specific flaw exists within the handling of the beanName parameter provided to the select.xhtml endpoint. When parsing the beanName parameter, the process does not properly validate a user-supplied string before using it to render a page. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute 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://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03768en_us
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2017-05-30 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2017-08-11 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Steven Seeley (mr_me) of Offensive Security

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