Advisory Details

April 9th, 2013

Hewlett-Packard Intelligent Management Center flexFileUpload Servlet Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2012-5209
CVSS SCORE	10.0, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
AFFECTED VENDORS	Hewlett-Packard
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 ['12864']. 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 HP Intelligent Management Center. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the flexFileUpload servlet. This servlet exposes file upload functionalities and suffers from a directory traversal vulnerability which allows a file to be written to the server. By abusing this behavior an attacker can place a file and leverage the situation to achieve remote code execution as the SYSTEM user.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Hewlett-Packard has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay/?docId=emr_na-c03689276
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2012-11-19 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2013-04-09 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Andrea Micalizzi aka rgod

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