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CVE-2017-12549· NVD / CVE Program· CNA hpe

A local authentication bypass vulnerability in HPE System Management Homepage for Windows and Linux version prior to v7.6.1 was found.

MediumCVSS 5.6 · v3.0—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Feb 15, 2018
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
0.3% · 21th percentile
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Action score

22

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
22 / 40 · 5.6 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.3%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
hpsystem management homepage
linuxlinux kernel
microsoftwindows

Affected versions

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

  • hp system management homepagebefore 7.6.1

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (hpe). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise System Management Homepage for Windows and Linux

    • prior to 7.6.1affected

Same product

hp: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2013-3576ginkgosnmp.inc in HP System Management Homepage (SMH) allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacte
    56Plan
  • CVE-2011-1541Unspecified vulnerability in HP System Management Homepage (SMH) before 6.3 allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions,
    44Plan
  • CVE-2016-4543The exif_process_IFD_in_JPEG function in ext/exif/exif.c in PHP before 5.5.35, 5.6.x before 5.6.21, and 7.x before 7.0.6 does not validate I
    43Plan
  • CVE-2016-1995HPE System Management Homepage before 7.5.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
    42Plan
  • CVE-2012-2012HP System Management Homepage (SMH) before 7.1.1 does not have an off autocomplete attribute for unspecified form fields, which makes it eas
    42Plan
  • CVE-2012-2015Unspecified vulnerability in HP System Management Homepage (SMH) before 7.1.1 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges and obtai
    37Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

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

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

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

No dated events beyond publication.

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

All researchers

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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

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • Administrator privileges are required.
  • A user must open a link or visit a page.
  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
High
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-287 · Improper Authentication

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

Authentication is added route by route instead of being enforced in one place. When a route added later bypasses the shared middleware, the session check never runs for it.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-287 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

ts
app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
// Route added later skips the middlewareapp.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);

Fixed

ts
const admin = express.Router();admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
admin.post("/config", updateConfig);app.use("/admin", admin);

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

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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