Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessCraft malicious script payload
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DeliveryInject into HPE OneView field/parameter
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ExploitAdmin views affected page
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ExecutionScript executes in admin session
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ImpactHijack session / exfiltrate data
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires the HPE OneView web management interface to be reachable by the attacker's crafted input and, critically, requires a legitimate authenticated user (typically an administrator) to view or interact with the attacker-controlled content (UI:R) for the injected script to execute. No attacker authentication is needed to plant the payload (PR:N), but the scope-changed impact (S:C, C:H) depends on the victim's session privilege. Exploitation is limited by this mandatory victim interaction, making it opportunistic/targeted rather than fully automatable; no non-default configuration is indicated as required by the sparse description. |
| Impact | The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N, base 8.2) describes a reflected/stored XSS (CWE-79) reachable over the network with low complexity and no attacker authentication, but requiring victim interaction (UI:R) and crossing a security scope boundary (S:C) - meaning attacker-controlled script executes in the browser context of a legitimate, likely privileged, HPE OneView user. The high confidentiality impact (C:H) reflects that hijacking an authenticated administrator session in an infrastructure-management console can expose credentials, tokens, and managed-server data; integrity is only low (I:L) and availability is unaffected (A:N). Real-world urgency is tempered because no exploitation signals accompany the report: there is no CISA KEV listing, no EPSS score supplied, and no public POC - so this is not confirmed active exploitation, just a vendor-disclosed weakness. The mandatory UI:R condition means an attacker must lure or wait for a victim to interact with malicious content, making this targeted rather than mass-automatable. Net: a genuinely serious flaw given the privileged admin context, but priority is moderate rather than emergency because exploitation depends on user interaction and no in-the-wild activity is evidenced. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker crafts input containing malicious JavaScript that HPE OneView renders unsanitized in a page viewed by an authenticated administrator; when the admin views that content, the script runs in their session and steals the session token or performs actions as that admin. No public exploit code has been identified, and the attack requires the victim admin to load the malicious content (UI:R). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 29, 2026
Cross-site scripting (CWE-79) in HPE OneView (CVSS 3.1 base 8.2) lets remote attackers with no authentication of their own plant script that executes inside the browser session of a logged-in OneView user, which the assessed vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N) indicates can escalate into session hijacking, theft of data visible to that user, or other unauthorized actions performed with the victim's privileges. Because the vector requires user interaction (UI:R), successful exploitation depends on a legitimate - typically administrative - user viewing or interacting with attacker-controlled content, making it opportunistic or targeted rather than fully automatable; the scope-changed, high-confidentiality impact means the consequences are bounded by the victim's session privilege. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and there is no indication of confirmed active exploitation; the CPE entry uses a wildcard version, so all OneView versions should be treated as potentially affected until HPE confirms fixed builds.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch was identified in the provided data, so the primary action is to check the HPE Security Bulletin (https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbgn05140en_us&docLocale=en_US) for the fixed OneView build and upgrade to that revision as soon as it is published. Until an upgrade is applied, treat the OneView management interface as an attack surface: restrict reachability of the web UI to a dedicated administrative network or VPN and block it from general user and internet-facing networks, accepting that this impairs remote administration and may complicate legitimate operator workflows. Because exploitation requires a privileged user to interact with attacker-controlled content (UI:R), reinforce browser-side hygiene for OneView administrators - do not follow untrusted links or open untrusted pages while authenticated to OneView, log out of the console when not in use, and use a separate browser profile or dedicated jump host so a hijacked session cannot be chained to other systems. Where the appliance or fronting proxy supports it, enforce a restrictive Content-Security-Policy and enable HttpOnly/SameSite session cookies as compensating controls; these reduce script execution and cookie theft but do not eliminate the underlying output-encoding defect and must not be treated as a substitute for the vendor fix. Monitor HPE OneView audit and web access logs for anomalous requests containing script payloads and for unexpected administrative actions performed under valid sessions, and rotate administrative credentials if compromise is suspected.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The root cause is an improper neutralization of user-supplied input in generated web output - CWE-79 cross-site scripting - within the HPE OneView web management interface, which administrators use to manage converged infrastructure (compute, storage, networking and profiles). The CVSS vector's S:C (scope changed) component is characteristic of XSS: the vulnerable component is the web application, but the impacted component is the victim's browser session and everything reachable through it, hence confidentiality is rated High (C:H) while integrity is rated Low (I:L) because the attacker's direct influence is limited to actions the victim's session can perform. AV:N/AC:L/PR:N reflects that the payload can be delivered over the network with no complexity and without the attacker holding any OneView credentials, while UI:R captures the essential prerequisite that a legitimate authenticated user must render or interact with the injected content for execution to occur. The affected CPE, cpe:2.3:a:hewlett_packard_enterprise:hpe_oneview:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, carries a wildcard version, so the dataset does not narrow the vulnerable release set; the sparse description does not indicate any non-default configuration requirement. The accompanying references are limited to the HPE Security Bulletin (hpesbgn05140en_us), which is the authoritative source for the precise vulnerable and fixed revisions.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Network-reachable XSS needing no attacker auth (PR:N) but victim interaction (UI:R); script runs in victim's session crossing scope (S:C) enabling session/data theft (C:H), minor integrity (I:L), no availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (hpe).
CVSS VectorVendor: hpe
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2DescriptionCVE.org
A security vulnerability in HPE OneView may be exploited remotely to perform session hijacking, data theft or other unauthorized actions.
Executive ViewAI
HPE OneView, the management platform used to administer the organization's HPE server, storage, and networking estate, is affected by a high-severity cross-site scripting flaw for which no vendor patch is currently available. An attacker needs no credentials of their own but must convince a logged-in OneView user - very likely an administrator with broad infrastructure privileges - to interact with malicious content, after which the attacker can operate inside that victim's session, exposing sensitive infrastructure data and enabling unauthorized changes under the victim's authority. Because OneView is a high-value control plane whose compromise could cascade into the underlying compute and storage environment, leadership should treat this as a management-plane risk requiring immediate interim mitigations rather than routine patching.
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Interim mitigations: isolate OneView management interfaces from general and internet-facing networks; require MFA and enforce least-privilege roles; reduce idle session timeouts; deploy WAF/URL filtering or browser isolation for administrative endpoints; monitor OneView and identity logs for anomalous admin session activity; and reinforce user awareness against phishing and untrusted content. Exploitation is unauthenticated from the attacker's side but requires victim user interaction (UI:R), and no public exploit identified at time of analysis.
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Attack Technique
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