Check Point Advisories

HP Universal CMDB Server Axis2 Default Credentials Remote Code Execution

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2011-017
Date Published: 8 Feb 2011
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Tuesday 08 February, 2011
Source:
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description HP Universal CMDB is a modular management system that consists of a business-service-oriented data model with built-in discovery of configuration items (CIs) and configuration item dependencies, visualization and mapping of business services, and tracking of configuration changes. A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in HP Universal CMDB Server. The vulnerability is due to an authentication weakness in the HP Universal CMDB Server's configuration. When the software is installed, default credentials are assigned to the Axis2 web services component. A remote attacker may leverage this issue to upload a malicious web service to a target system, enabling arbitrary code execution within the security context of an Axis2 web service.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block unauthorized attempts to connect to HP Universal CMDB Server by default admin user.Note that in order for this defense to protect your HP Universal CMDB Server, you will need to configure port 8080 (which is also the HTTP proxy port) to work with the HTTP protocol. You need to do the following:1. In the Services tree, click on TCP > HTTP_and_HTTPS_proxy. The TCP Service Properties window opens.2. Click on Advanced. Select the Protocol Type: HTTP.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the HP Universal CMDB Server Axis2 Default Credentials Remote Code Execution protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  HP Products Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  HP Universal CMDB Server Axis2 default credentials remote code execution

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