HP Smart Storage Administrator command injection

Added: 02/16/2017
CVE: CVE-2016-8523
BID: 95868

Background

HP Smart Storage Administrator (HP SSA) is a web-based application that helps an administrator configure, manage, diagnose, and monitor HP ProLiant Smart Array Controllers and other storage devices such as host bus adapters (HBAs) and HP Storage controllers.

Problem

A command injection vulnerability in HP Smart Storage Administrator allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by sending a specially crafted query string in the URL of a GET request.

Resolution

Update to HP Smart Storage Administrator v2.60.18.0 or later.

References

http://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c05382349

Limitations

Anonymous access must be enabled.

Exploit requires the IO::Socket::SSL Perl module to be installed on the SAINTexploit host.

Platforms

Linux

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