Vulnerability has been found in HPE Integrated Lights-Out 4 (iLO 4) servers, which could take into consideration remote code execution. In spite of the fact that it was first discovered on February 2017, yet was released with patches in August 2017.

HPE iLO 4 is an embedded server management tool utilized for out-of-band administration. The fruitful exploitation of this vulnerability is said to bring about remote code execution or even at times authentication bypass, as well as extraction of plaintext passwords, addition of an administrator account, execution of malicious code, or replacement of iLO firmware.

This vulnerability in iLO cards can be utilized to break into numerous organizations' networks and perhaps access exceptionally delicate or restrictive data as these devices are, to a great degree prominent among the small and the large enterprises alike.

The trio of security researchers, who found the vulnerability CVE-2017-12542 a year ago, say that it can be exploited remotely, by means of an Internet connection, putting all iLO servers exposed online in danger.

Additionally including later that it is essentially a verification sidestep that permits attackers access to HP iLO consoles and this access can later be utilized to remove cleartext passwords, execute noxious code, and even supplant iLO firmware. Execution of the vulnerability requires the attacker to cURL to the influenced server, trailed by 29 "A" characters.

Researchers published two GIFs showing how easy are to bypass iLO authentication with their method, and how they were able to retrieve a local user's password in cleartext.

Extra subtle elements on the vulnerability and exploit code were as of late distributed in different open-source media reports, and a Metasploit module was also made accessible, altogether expanding the hazard to vulnerable systems.

In any case, iLO server proprietors do not have any reason to panic as since security research team found this vulnerability path back in February 2017 they notified HP with the assistance of the CERT division at Airbus.

What's more, as far as it concerns HP released patches for CVE-2017-12542 in August a year ago, in iLO 4 firmware version 2.54. System administrators who're in the propensity for frequently fixing servers are undoubtedly secured against this bug for quite a long time.