CVE-2015-2134
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in HP System Management Homepage (SMH) before 7.5.0 allows remote authenticated users to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims via unknown vectors.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceCross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in HP System Management Homepage (SMH) versions prior to 7.5.0 allows an authenticated remote attacker to trick other authenticated users into unknowingly executing unintended actions by sending malicious requests. The vulnerability stems from missing or insufficient CSRF protection mechanisms (such as anti-CSRF tokens) in the SMH web interface.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data<= 7.4.0CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
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- Authentication
- Single
- Confidentiality
- Partial
- Integrity
- Partial
- Availability
- Partial
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify HP SMH installation locationLocate the HP System Management Homepage installation directory; common paths include /opt/hp/hpsmh or C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Management Homepage on Windows. Check for the 'sVersion' file or smhutil.exe version output.Affected if Cannot locate version information or installation is found in a non-standard path without version data.
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Determine installed HP SMH versionRun 'hpasmcli -s show' or check the SMH web interface by accessing the login page and viewing the version in the footer, or use the command 'smhutil -V' if available in the installation directory.Affected if Version information cannot be retrieved from the SMH interface or command line tools.
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Compare version against affected rangeCompare the identified version number to the affected range: versions 7.4.0 and earlier are vulnerable. Versions 7.5.0 and later include CSRF protection.Affected if Installed version is 7.4.0 or earlier, or version cannot be determined but is known to be from an older installation.
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Verify CSRF protection mechanism presenceLog into the SMH web interface and inspect the HTML source of a form (such as the administration or settings page). Check for the presence of an anti-CSRF token parameter (commonly named 'csrf_token', 'token', or similar) in form submissions.Affected if Forms in the SMH interface lack anti-CSRF token parameters in their HTML source, indicating missing protection.
A user is affected if HP System Management Homepage version 7.4.0 or earlier is installed and the web interface forms lack anti-CSRF token protection.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpgrade HP System Management Homepage to version 7.5.0 or later which includes proper CSRF protection. As a temporary compensating control, implement additional session validation and consider deploying a WAF with CSRF detection capabilities.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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