CVE-2022-37940 — Potential security vulnerabilities have been identified in the HPE FlexFabric 57

Potential security vulnerabilities have been identified in the HPE FlexFabric 5700 Switch Series. These vulnerabilities could be remotely exploited to allow host header injection and URL redirection. HPE has made the following software to resolve the vulnerability in HPE FlexFabr

01What is this vulnerability?

Potential security vulnerabilities have been identified in the HPE FlexFabric 5700 Switch Series. These vulnerabilities could be remotely exploited to allow host header injection and URL redirection. HPE has made the following software to resolve the vulnerability in HPE FlexFabric 5700 Switch Series version R2432P61 or later.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)	HPE FlexFabric 5700 Switch Series	Prior to R2432P61

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: 2023-03-15T15:43:18.713Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-27T14:16:11.174Z

09References

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