HP Virtual SAN appliance root shell command injection

Overview

The HP Virtual SAN appliance version 9.5 is susceptible to a root shell command injection (CWE-77) vulnerability.

Description

Tenable Network Security has reported that HP’s fix for the command injection vulnerability, EDB-ID 18893, was incomplete. The ping command for the appliance has a total of four parameters. The initial fix has only sanitized the input for one of the four parameters. Command injection is still possible against the other three parameters.

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Impact

An authenticated attacker can run arbitrary commands on the appliance.

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Solution

We are currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem. Please consider the following workarounds.

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Restrict access

As a general good security practice, only allow connections from trusted hosts and networks. Restricting access would prevent an attacker from accessing an HP Virtual SAN appliance using stolen credentials from a blocked network location.

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Vendor Information

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Hewlett-Packard Company Affected

Notified: July 10, 2012 Updated: August 17, 2012

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

We are not aware of further vendor information regarding this vulnerability.

CVSS Metrics

Group	Score	Vector
Base	7.7	AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Temporal	6.2	E:POC/RL:U/RC:UC
Environmental	6.2	CDP:ND/TD:ND/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND

References

• <http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/77.html&gt;
• <http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18893/&gt;

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Tenable Network Security for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Jared Allar.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2012-2986
Date Public:	2012-08-17 Date First Published: