CVE-2019-16649 — On Supermicro H11, H12, M11, X9, X10, and X11 products, a combination of encrypt

On Supermicro H11, H12, M11, X9, X10, and X11 products, a combination of encryption and authentication problems in the virtual media service allows capture of BMC credentials and data transferred over virtual media devices. Attackers can use captured credentials to connect virtua

01What is this vulnerability?

On Supermicro H11, H12, M11, X9, X10, and X11 products, a combination of encryption and authentication problems in the virtual media service allows capture of BMC credentials and data transferred over virtual media devices. Attackers can use captured credentials to connect virtual USB devices to the server managed by the BMC.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

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: 2019-09-21T01:54:55.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T01:17:41.094Z

09References

• eclypsium.com — https://eclypsium.com/2019/09/03/usbanywhere-bmc-vulnerability-opens-servers-to-…
• github.com — https://github.com/eclypsium/USBAnywhere
• www.supermicro.com — https://www.supermicro.com/support/security_BMC_virtual_media.cfm