Lenovo Patches Networking OS Vulnerability Dating Back to 2004

Lenovo patched a flaw in its networking operating system dating back to 2004 that allowed attackers to perform an authentication bypass attack via a mechanism called “HP Backdoor.” If exploited, an attacker could gain admin-level access on affected switches, Lenovo said. The vulnerability is rate...

CVE-2017-3765

In Enterprise Networking Operating System ENOS in Lenovo and IBM RackSwitch and BladeCenter products, an authentication bypass known as "HP Backdoor" was discovered during a Lenovo security audit in the serial console, Telnet, SSH, and Web interfaces. This bypass mechanism can be accessed when...

Authentication flaw

In Enterprise Networking Operating System ENOS in Lenovo and IBM RackSwitch and BladeCenter products, an authentication bypass known as "HP Backdoor" was discovered during a Lenovo security audit in the serial console, Telnet, SSH, and Web interfaces. This bypass mechanism can be accessed when...

CVE-2017-3765

In Enterprise Networking Operating System ENOS in Lenovo and IBM RackSwitch and BladeCenter products, an authentication bypass known as "HP Backdoor" was discovered during a Lenovo security audit in the serial console, Telnet, SSH, and Web interfaces. This bypass mechanism can be accessed when...

CVE-2017-3765

CVE-2017-3765 affects Lenovo/IBM ENOS on RackSwitch/BladeCenter products, enabling an authentication bypass (the “HP Backdoor”) that, under specific local-authentication conditions, could grant admin-level access to the switch management interfaces (Telnet/Serial Console, SSH, Web). IBM/Lenovo ad...