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high 7.5

CVE-2013-4786 in the critical feed json

The IPMI 2.0 specification supports RMCP+ Authenticated Key-Exchange Protocol (RAKP) authentication, which allows remote attackers to obtai…

published 13y ago modified last mo. also EUVD-2013-4632

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
98.4%
EPSS 98.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.9%
public exploits
2
Metasploit and Exploit-DB

Summary

The IPMI 2.0 specification supports RMCP+ Authenticated Key-Exchange Protocol (RAKP) authentication, which allows remote attackers to obtain password hashes and conduct offline password guessing attacks by obtaining the HMAC from a RAKP message 2 response from a BMC.

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-4786 updated cvss 5.0

freeipmi: Leakage of password hashes via RAKP authentication

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 freeipmi, OpenIPMI Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 freeipmi, OpenIPMI, OpenIPMI-libs, OpenIPMI-perl, OpenIPMI-python, freeipmi-ipmidetectd, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 freeipmi, OpenIPMI, OpenIPMI-libs, OpenIPMI-perl, OpenIPMI-python, freeipmi-ipmiseld, +3 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit auxiliary/scanner/ipmi/ipmi_dumphashes)
  2. Published

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last mo.

Exploit prediction

98.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 7.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-255 Credentials Management Errors

References

Sources

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