Integrated Lights Out 5 Firmware
CVE-2022-28639
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Resource consumption limits
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: adjacent network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause denial of service by exhausting system resources. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
A remote potential adjacent denial of service (DoS) and potential adjacent arbitrary code execution vulnerability that could potentially lead to a loss of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Implement rate limiting, set resource quotas, validate input sizes, use timeouts.
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This vulnerability is classified as Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400), which allows attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting system resources. A remote potential adjacent denial of service (DoS) and potential adjacent arbitrary code execution vulnerability that could potentially lead to a loss of confidentiality, integrity, and availability were discovered in HPE Integrated Lights-Out 5 (iLO 5) in Version: 2.71. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has provided updated firmware for HPE Integrated Lights-Out 5 (iLO 5) that addresses these security vulnerabilities. Affected products include: Hpe Integrated Lights-Out 5 Firmware.
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AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
A remote potential adjacent denial of service (DoS) and potential adjacent arbitrary code execution vulnerability that could potentially lead to a loss of confidentiality, integrity, and availability were discovered in HPE Integrated Lights-Out 5 (iLO 5) in Version: 2.71. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has provided updated firmware for HPE Integrated Lights-Out 5 (iLO 5) that addresses these security vulnerabilities.
Threat Intelligence Overview
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
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Attack Technique
Remote Code Execution represents the critical moment when an attacker successfully runs arbitrary code on a target system without physical access.
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
A potential security vulnerability has been identified in HPE Integrated Lights-Out 5 (iLO 5) and Integrated Lights-Out
A potential local adjacent arbitrary code execution vulnerability that could potentially lead to a loss of confidentiali
A potential arbitrary code execution and a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability within an isolated process were discove
A potential arbitrary code execution and a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability within an isolated process were discove
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, Moon
A local arbitrary code execution vulnerability was discovered in HPE Integrated Lights-Out 5 (iLO 5) firmware version(s)
A local arbitrary code execution vulnerability was discovered in HPE Integrated Lights-Out 5 (iLO 5) firmware version(s)
A remote cross site scripting vulnerability was identified in HPE Integrated Lights-Out 4 (iLO 4) earlier than v2.61b fo
An isolated local disclosure of information and potential isolated local arbitrary code execution vulnerability that cou
A local Denial of Service (DoS) and local arbitrary code execution vulnerability that could potentially lead to a loss o
A local arbitrary code execution vulnerability was discovered in HPE Integrated Lights-Out 5 (iLO 5) firmware version(s)
HPE Integrated Lights-Out 5, and Integrated Lights-Out 6 using iLOrest may cause denial of service. Rated high severity
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