ILO4 Authentication bypass

HPE’s Integrated Lights-out 4 (iLO 4) controllers prior to version 2.54 are affected by an authentication bypass and code execution vulnerability. This vulnerability is triggered by a buffer overflow attack in how the web server handles the Connection HTTP header.

Impact

An attacker can create an administrative account due to unrestricted access to the REST API and also can perform dangerous actions such as power off a server remotely, triggering virtual media, or altering the underlying OS.

Mitigation / Precaution

• We recommend you to upgrade to HPE Integrated Lights-out 4 (iLO 4) firmware version 2.53 or newer

Written by

Rejah Rehim

Co-founder, Director

Rejah brings more than 12 years of industry experience in Information Technology. He is a fervent security enthusiast and serves as a Project Leader at OWASP Foundation, and Commander (Hon.) at Kerala Police. He has authored two books titled “Effective Python Penetration Testing” and “Python Penetration Testing Cookbook” and is the creator of 9 Mozilla add-ons.