Wednesday, August 21, 2013

IPMI over LAN vulnerability and some BMC "features"

I don't want to pull away credit or page views from Dan Farmer's great work, but this needs more exposure...
For those of you who manage servers with IPMI over LAN enabled, there is a very severe vulnerability that may allow anyone full root access to your iLO/iDRAC/IMM/ILOM/whatever (aka BMC).  This is independent of the OS, though once rooted the attacker can then take over the OS in the same way they would as if they have physical access.  They can control power, boot settings, serial over LAN, BIOS settings (via serial), KVM, and can even read/write arbitrary system memory.

For those of you who do not have IPMI over LAN enabled, there may be some stuff that affects you too...