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…

published 2012-08-20 14y ago modified 2026-06-16 4mo ago also EUVD-2012-4305

cvss: 4.0; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 3.2%; EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits: 2; Exploit-DB

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.

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Timeline

2012-02-17 First public exploit (EDB-18893)
2012-08-20 Published

Exploit prediction

3.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

EDB-18901 HP StorageWorks P4000 - Virtual SAN Appliance Command Execution (Metasploit) remote, 2012-05-21
EDB-18893 HP VSA - Remote Command Execution remote, 2012-02-17

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness

CWE-255 Credentials Management Errors

References

exploit-db.com /exploits/18901/
exploit
exploit-db.com /exploits/18893/
exploit
kb.cert.org /vuls/id/441363
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource

Sources

CVE List CVE-2012-4362
NVD CVE-2012-4362

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