Check Point Advisories

HPE Smart Storage Administrator Code Execution (CVE-2016-8523)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2017-0505
Date Published: 14 Jun 2017
Severity: Medium
Last Updated: Wednesday 05 July, 2017
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2016-8523
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable? HPE Smart Storage Administrator prior to v2.60.18.0
Vulnerability Description A remote code execution vulnerability exists in HPE Smart Storage Administrator. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the vulnerable server. Successful exploitation could result in arbitrary code execution in the security context of the process.

Protection Overview

This protection detects attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

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 HPE Smart Storage Administrator 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:  Application Servers Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  HPE Smart Storage Administrator Code Execution

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