A vulnerability was found in HPE FlexFabric 5700 Switch Series (affected version unknown) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Host Header Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Potential security vulnerabilities have been identified in the HPE FlexFabric 5700 Switch Series. These vulnerabilities could be remotely exploited to allow host header injection and URL redirection. HPE has made the following software to resolve the vulnerability in HPE FlexFabric 5700 Switch Series version R2432P61 or later.

The weakness was released 03/22/2023. It is possible to read the advisory at support.hpe.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-37940 since 08/08/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/12/2023). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1055 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• FlexFabric 5700 Switch Series

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• commercial

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