Advisory Details

November 6th, 2017

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Intelligent Management Center TopoMsgServlet Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2017-8966
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
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION	Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['28287']. 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 Enterprise Intelligent Management Center. Although authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability, the existing authentication mechanism can be bypassed. The specific flaw exists within TopoMsgServlet servlet, which listens on TCP ports 8080 and 8443 by default. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in deserialization of untrusted data. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary 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://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03787en_us
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2017-05-11 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2017-11-06 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Steven Seeley (mr_me) of Offensive Security

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