CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2018-7093 — Hp Integrated Lights-Out 3 Firmware security vulnerability

High CVSS 8.6

A security vulnerability in HPE Integrated Lights-Out 3 prior to v1.90, iLO 4 prior to v2.60, iLO 5 prior to v1.30, Moonshot Chassis Manager firmware prior to v1.58, and Moonshot Component Pack prior to v2.55 could be remotely exploited to create a denial of service.

Severity
High
CVSS
8.6 (3.0)
Published
2018-08-14
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system

Affected products

  • hp / integrated_lights-out_3_firmware
  • hp / integrated_lights-out_4_firmware
  • hp / integrated_lights-out_5_firmware
  • hp / moonshot_chassis_manager_firmware
  • hp / moonshot_component_pack_firmware

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

Complete CVE record and remediation plan

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