CVE-2023-31037 — NVIDIA Bluefield 2 and Bluefield 3 DPU BMC contains a vulnerability in ipmitool,

NVIDIA Bluefield 2 and Bluefield 3 DPU BMC contains a vulnerability in ipmitool, where a root user may cause code injection by a network call. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to code execution on the OS.

01What is this vulnerability?

NVIDIA Bluefield 2 and Bluefield 3 DPU BMC contains a vulnerability in ipmitool, where a root user may cause code injection by a network call. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to code execution on the OS.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
NVIDIA	Bluefield 2 DPU BMC, BlueField 3 DPU BMC	LTS:2.8.2-46, 23.04, 23.07, 23.09

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: 2024-01-24T02:12:30.123Z
• Last modified: 2025-06-09T20:48:11.032Z

09References

• nvidia.custhelp.com — https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5511