HPSBMU03126 rev.2 - HP Operations Manager/Operations Agent, Remote Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Document Subtype: Security Bulletin|Document ID: c04472444|Last Updated: 2014-10-15|Release Date: 2014-10-06|Document Version: 1

Potential Security Impact: Remote Cross-site scripting (XSS)

Source: Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HPE Product Security Response Team

VULNERABILITY SUMMARY

Potential security vulnerabilities have been identified with HP Operations Agent. This also has an impact on the HP Operations Manager, where the HP Operations Agent is installed. The vulnerabilities could be exploited resulting in remote cross-site scripting (XSS).

References:

CVE-2014-2647 (SSRT101643, SSRT101670) Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

SUPPORTED SOFTWARE VERSIONS*: ONLY impacted versions are listed.

HP Operations Agent prior to version 11.13

BACKGROUND

HP Operations Manager functions in conjunction with HP Operations Agent. The Communications Broker facilitates communications between the two.

CVSS 2.0 Base Metrics

Reference	Base Vector	Base Score
CVE-2014-2647	(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)	4.3

Information on CVSS is documented in HP Customer Notice: HPSN-2008-002

The Hewlett-Packard Company thanks Jake Bernier and Matt Schmidt for reporting CVE-2014-2647 to security-alert@hp.com.

RESOLUTION

HP has made the following software updates available to resolve these vulnerabilities for all impacted versions of HP Operations Agent and Operations Manager.

Product	Download Location
HP Operations OS Instance v11.13	Download from SSO or https://softwaresupport.hp.com/group/softwaresupport/home
HP Operations OS Instance v11.14	Download from SSO or https://softwaresupport.hp.com/group/softwaresupport/home

Workaround and Hotfixes

Please contact HP Software Support for hotfixes on any other supported versions of HP Operations Agent.

NOTE: If a higher version** of fixes is already installed (mentioned below), no action required for this problem.

Product	Component Version
HP Operations OS Instance v11.05	HPOvBbc 11.05.024
HP Operations OS Instance v11.11	HPOvBbc 11.11.103
HP Operations OS Instance v11.12	HPOvBbc 11.12.022

** For verifying the version of the HP Operations Agent software components on the system, you can use the following HP Operations Agent command:

ovdeploy -inv

Without the above hotfix, the following configuration variable can be set on HP Operations Agent, to avoid this vulnerability being exploited over the network. Restart of the Agent processes is not required after the configuration change.

[bbc.cb]

LOCAL_INFO_ONLY=TRUE

Note:For unsupported versions, including versions of HP Operations Agent v8.60.501 and below, setting the above configuration variable is the only workaround available.

HISTORY
Version:1 (rev.1) - 15 October 2014 Initial release

Version:2 (rev.2) - 17 October 2014 Revised download location, resolution, product description, and title

Third Party Security Patches: Third party security patches that are to be installed on systems running HP software products should be applied in accordance with the customer's patch management policy.

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