CVE-2019-11993 — A security vulnerability has been identified in HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen 9, HPE Si

A security vulnerability has been identified in HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen 9, HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen 10, HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen 10 G, HPE SimpliVity 2600 Gen 10, SimpliVity OmniCube, SimpliVity OmniStack for Cisco, SimpliVity OmniStack for Lenovo and SimpliVity OmniStack for Dell nod

01What is this vulnerability?

A security vulnerability has been identified in HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen 9, HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen 10, HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen 10 G, HPE SimpliVity 2600 Gen 10, SimpliVity OmniCube, SimpliVity OmniStack for Cisco, SimpliVity OmniStack for Lenovo and SimpliVity OmniStack for Dell nodes. Two now deprecated APIs run as root, accept a file name path, and can be used to create or delete arbitrary files…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / SimpliVity OmniCube; HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen9; HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen9; HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10; HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 G; SimpliVity OmniStack for Lenovo; SimpliVity OmniStack for Cisco; SimpliVity OmniStack for Dell; HPE SimpliVity 2600 Gen10	releases from 3.0.8 to 3.7.9, releases from 3.6.2 to 3.7.9, releases from 3.7.1 to 3.7.9, releases from 3.7.8 to 3.7.9, releases from 3.7.5 to 3.7.9

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-01-03T17:18:03.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T23:10:30.154Z

09References

• support.hpe.com — https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpe…