HP Intelligent Management Center prior 5.0 uam.exe memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in HP Intelligent Management Center. This affects an unknown part of the file uam.exe. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2012-3274. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in HP Intelligent Management Center (Log Management Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the file uam.exe. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Stack-based buffer overflow in uam.exe in the User Access Manager (UAM) component in HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC) before 5.1 E0101P01 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to log data.

The weakness was shared 12/06/2012 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at h20566.www2.hp.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2012-3274 since 06/06/2012. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 08/13/2025).

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as highly functional. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 63265 (HP Intelligent Management Center User Access Manager Datagram Parsing Code Execution), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gain a shell remotely.

Upgrading to version 5.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (41710), Tenable (63265) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-37697†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Highly functional
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Nessus ID: 63265
Nessus Name: HP Intelligent Management Center User Access Manager Datagram Parsing Code Execution
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MetaSploit ID: hp_imc_uam.rb
MetaSploit Name: HP Intelligent Management Center UAM Buffer Overflow
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Intelligent Management Center 5.0
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06/06/2012 🔍
09/07/2012 +93 days 🔍
12/06/2012 +90 days 🔍
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12/14/2012 +8 days 🔍
12/17/2012 +3 days 🔍
03/24/2015 +827 days 🔍
08/13/2025 +3795 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: hp.com

Advisory: h20566.www2.hp.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2012-3274 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2012-3274
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-63164
SecurityFocus: 55271
Vulnerability Center: 37697 - HP IMC Before 5.1 SP1 UAM Remote Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Related to Log Data, Critical

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 03/24/2015 12:22
Updated: 08/13/2025 21:25
Changes: 03/24/2015 12:22 (62), 04/22/2017 17:12 (3), 12/20/2021 18:37 (3), 08/13/2025 21:25 (20)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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