Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in HP System Management Homepage, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to potentially gain escalated privileges, by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions, conduct cross-site request forgery and spoofing attacks, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), or compromise an application using the library.

1) The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any validity checks to verify the requests. This can be exploited to e.g. create an arbitrary user with administrative privileges if a logged-in administrative user visits a malicious web site.

2) An unspecified error can be exploited to cause a crash. No further information is currently available.

3) An unspecified error can potentially be exploited to gain escalated privileges. No further information is currently available.

4) The application bundles vulnerable versions of Apache, PHP, and cURL:

For more information:
SA31384
SA34138
SA38427
SA40206
SA41701
SA41724
SA42843
SA43012
SA43227
SA43328
SA44558
SA44572
SA44574
SA44874
SA45067
SA45325
SA45606
SA45678
SA45781
SA46013
SA46288
SA46987

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 7.0.

Solution
Upgrade to version 7.0.

Provided and/or discovered by
1) Sow Ching Shiong via Secunia.
2-4) Reported by the vendor.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03280632

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