HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2012-2986

San\/Iq vulnerability

CVSS
7.7
EPSS
4.4%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
lhn/public/network/ping in HP SAN/iQ 9.5 on the HP Virtual SAN Appliance allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) first, (2) third, or (3) fourth parameter. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-4361.
Affected vendor
Hp
Affected product
San\/Iq
CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-78 — OS Command Injection
Published
2012-08-20

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable from an adjacent network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2012-2986

  • Confirm whether Hp San\/Iq is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2012-2986.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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