CVE-2012-4362hydra.exe in HP SAN/iQ before 9.5 on the HP Virtual SAN Appliance has a hardcoded password of L0CAlu53R for the global$agent account,…
- 4.0MediumCVSS base score
- 3.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 12% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
hydra.exe in HP SAN/iQ before 9.5 on the HP Virtual SAN Appliance has a hardcoded password of L0CAlu53R for the global$agent account, which allows remote attackers to obtain access to a management service via a login: request to TCP port 13838.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Exploit-DB2 entries
- HP StorageWorks P4000 - Virtual SAN Appliance Command Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 18901remote, hardwarepublished 21 May 2012Verified
- HP VSA - Remote Command Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 18893remote, hardwarepublished 17 Feb 2012Verified
References tagged exploit2 references
- 18901 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 18893 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 12 years later
· 12 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 | Medium4.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.2% · top 12% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References3
- 18901 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- VU#441363 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 18893 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_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-2012-4305 (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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