Advisory Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Intelligent Management Center. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the dbman.conf file. The file contains hard-coded default credentials. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the context of SYSTEM.

This vulnerability is being disclosed publicly without a patch in accordance with the ZDI 120 day deadline.

01/10/19 - ZDI sent the vulnerability report to the vendor
01/30/19 - The vendor PSIRT replied they were working with the engineering team to get an updated schedule
02/27/19 - ZDI asked the vendor again for any ETA for updates for this product
02/27/19 - The vendor replied they would follow up
04/24/19 - ZDI notified the vendor that the reports will be published as 0-day on 05/09 if these are not patched before

-- Mitigation:
Given the nature of the vulnerability, the only salient mitigation strategy is to restrict interaction with the service to trusted machines. Only the clients and servers that have a legitimate procedural relationship with the service should be permitted to communicate with it. This could be accomplished in a number of ways, most notably with firewall rules/whitelisting.

• 2019-01-10 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
• 2019-05-09 - Coordinated public release of advisory
• 2021-03-02 - Advisory Updated