HPE UIoT up to 1.5 DSM Portal access control

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in HPE UIoT 1.2.4.2/1.4.0/1.4.1/1.4.2/1.5. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component DSM Portal. This manipulation causes access control. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-7111. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in HPE UIoT 1.2.4.2/1.4.0/1.4.1/1.4.2/1.5. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the component DSM Portal. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-264. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A remote unauthorized access vulnerability was identified in HPE UIoT versions 1.5, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.2.4.2. Specifically, there is a malfunction identified in some section of the DSM portal and some DSM APIs. The impact of the malfunction is that the info can be changed by other users.

The bug was discovered 10/15/2018. The weakness was released 10/17/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared at support.hpe.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-7111 since 02/14/2018. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/30/2023). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 105704†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• HPE

Name

• UIoT

Version

• 1.2.4.2
• 1.4.0
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.2
• 1.5

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.hpe.com/

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