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CVE-2009-3843· NVD / CVE Program· CNA hp

HP Operations Manager 8.10 on Windows contains a "hidden account" in the XML file that specifies Tomcat users, which allows remote attackers

Noroxi assessment

Priority: This week (action score 64/100)

  • A ready-made attack module is public (Metasploit); exploiting it takes no special expertise.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 78.9% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 99.5% of all records.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

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Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

HP Operations Manager 8.10 on Windows contains a "hidden account" in the XML file that specifies Tomcat users, which allows remote attackers to conduct unrestricted file upload attacks, and thereby execute arbitrary code, by using the org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet class to make requests to manager/html/upload.

CriticalCVSS 10.0 · v2.0—Weaponized No fix recorded
Published
Nov 23, 2009
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
79.0% · 100th percentile

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64

This week

Don’t wait for the next maintenance window.

CVSS
40 / 40 · 10.0 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
24 / 30 · 79.0%

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
hpoperations manager

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • hp operations manager8.10

Same product

hp: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2009-4189HP Operations Manager has a default password of OvW*busr1 for the ovwebusr account, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code
    64This week
  • CVE-2014-2648Unspecified vulnerability in HP Operations Manager 9.10 and 9.11 on UNIX allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vecto
    43Plan
  • CVE-2009-3099Unspecified vulnerability in HP OpenView Operations Manager 8.1 on Windows Server 2003 SP2 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact
    43Plan
  • CVE-2016-1985HPE Operations Manager 8.x and 9.0 on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted serialized Java object, re
    42Plan
  • CVE-2010-1033Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in a certain Tetradyne ActiveX control in HP Operations Manager 7.5, 8.10, and 8.16 might allow remote
    41Plan
  • CVE-2016-4373The AdminUI in HPE Operations Manager (OM) before 9.21.130 on Linux, Unix, and Solaris allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands
    40Plan

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

Weaponized

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Evidence

  • Metasploit module ×3
  • Exploit-DB entry ×1

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Public exploit evidence
SourceKindDate
Exploit-DB entryremote2010-12-14
Metasploit moduleauxiliary/scanner/http/tomcat_mgr_loginTomcat Application Manager Login Utilityauxiliary—
Metasploit moduleexploit/multi/http/tomcat_mgr_deployApache Tomcat Manager Application Deployer Authenticated Code Executionexploit2009-11-09
Metasploit moduleexploit/multi/http/tomcat_mgr_uploadApache Tomcat Manager Authenticated Upload Code Executionexploit2009-11-09

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

  1. Metasploit-15 d
  2. Published
  3. First PoC+385 d
  4. TodayOct 12, 2026+6167 d
EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
C · data can be read
Integrity
C · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
C · the service can be disrupted
Attack complexity
Low
Confidentiality impact
C
Integrity impact
C
Availability impact
C

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-264 · Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

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