CVE-2017-8961 Path traversal in Intelligent Management Center

What is CVE-2017-8961?

CVE-2017-8961 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Hp Intelligent Management Center, published on 15 Feb 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A directory traversal vulnerability in HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) PLAT 7.3 E0504P02 could allow remote code execution.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-8961?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Hp Intelligent Management Center.

How do I fix CVE-2017-8961?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-8961 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2017-8961 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-8961 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Hp Intelligent Management Center

• CVE-2012-5201 Code injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2012-5209 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2012-3274 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2012-3253 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-2331 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 10.0

All Hp Intelligent Management Center vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-vmxf-f8cr-mhq7.