Advisory Details

January 29th, 2020

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

CVE ID	CVE-2020-7142
CVSS SCORE	8.8, AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AFFECTED VENDORS	Hewlett Packard Enterprise
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Intelligent Management Center
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected 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 eventInfo_content.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 in 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=a00093539en_us
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2019-08-16 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2020-01-29 - Coordinated public release of advisory 2021-03-02 - Advisory Updated
CREDIT	Steven Seeley (mr_me) of Source Incite

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