CVE-2014-8272

medium
Published 2014-12-19 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

The IPMI 1.5 functionality in Dell iDRAC6 modular before 3.65, iDRAC6 monolithic before 1.98, and iDRAC7 before 1.57.57 does not properly select session ID values, which makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a brute-force attack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-35770 webapps hardware
Yong Chuan_ Koh ยท 2015-01-13

Dell iDRAC IPMI 1.5 - Insufficient Session ID Randomness

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
dell dellidrac6_modular{"endIncluding":"3.60"}
dell dellidrac7{"endIncluding":"1.56.55"}
intel intelipmi1.5
dell dellidrac6_monolithic{"endIncluding":"1.97"}

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.