CVE-2009-4189
HP Operations Manager has a default password of OvW*busr1 for the ovwebusr account, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 78.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
HP Operations Manager has a default password of OvW*busr1 for the ovwebusr account, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a session that uses the manager role to conduct unrestricted file upload attacks against the /manager servlet in the Tomcat servlet container. NOTE: this might overlap CVE-2009-3099 and CVE-2009-3843.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 3 Metasploit modules and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Metasploit modules3 modules
- Apache Tomcat Manager Application Deployer Authenticated Code Execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/http/tomcat_mgr_deployRank excellentdisclosed 9 Nov 2009
- Apache Tomcat Manager Authenticated Upload Code Execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/http/tomcat_mgr_uploadRank excellentdisclosed 9 Nov 2009
- Tomcat Application Manager Login Utility (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/http/tomcat_mgr_loginRank normal
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Apache Tomcat Manager - Application Deployer (Authenticated) Code Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16317remote, multiplepublished 14 Dec 2010Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
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Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 78.5% · top 0.4% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
1
- http://www.intevydis.com/blog/?p=87 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2009-4159 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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