A potential security vulnerability has been identified in HPE Intelligent Provisioning, Service Pack for ProLiant, and HPE Scripting ToolKi…

published 2020-07-30 6y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-28339

cvss: 6.7; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits: 0; none known

A potential security vulnerability has been identified in HPE Intelligent Provisioning, Service Pack for ProLiant, and HPE Scripting ToolKit. The vulnerability could be locally exploited to allow arbitrary code execution during the boot process. **Note:** This vulnerability is related to using insmod in GRUB2 in the specific impacted HPE product and HPE is addressing this issue. HPE has made the following software updates and mitigation information to resolve the vulnerability in Intelligent Provisioning, Service Pack for ProLiant, and HPE Scripting ToolKit. HPE provided latest Intelligent Provisioning, Service Pack for ProLiant, and HPE Scripting Toolkit which includes the GRUB2 patch to resolve this vulnerability. These new boot images will update GRUB2 and the Forbidden Signature Database (DBX). After the DBX is updated, users will not be able to boot to the older IP, SPP or Scripting ToolKit with Secure Boot enabled. HPE have provided a standalone DBX update tool to work with Microsoft Windows, and supported Linux Operating Systems. These tools can be used to update the Forbidden Signature Database (DBX) from within the OS. **Note:** This DBX update mitigates the GRUB2 issue with insmod enabled, and the "Boot Hole" issue for HPE signed GRUB2 applications.

Patch / fix

fixed in 3

hpe intelligent_provisioning 1.72, 2.81
hpe service_pack_for_proliant 2020.03.0
hpe smartstart_scripting_toolkit 11.40

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Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	6.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.2	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

n/a HP Intelligent Provisioning
n/a HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server Blade
n/a HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant DL180 Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant DL60 Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant DL80 Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant ML110 Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant ML150 Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant XL740f Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant XL750f Gen9 Server
n/a HPE Apollo 4200 Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant DL20 Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant ML30 Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant ML350 Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant XL170r Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant XL190r Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant XL230a Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant XL250a Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant XL260a Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant XL450 Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant XL730f Gen9 Server
n/a ProLiant SE2160w Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant m510 Server Cartridge
n/a HPE ProLiant m710x Server Blade
n/a HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen10 Server Blade
n/a HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen10 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen10 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant ML110 Gen10 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10
n/a HPE Synergy 480 Gen10 Compute Module
n/a HPE Synergy 660 Gen10 Compute Module
n/a HPE ProLiant DL180 Gen10 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant DL160 Gen10 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant DL120 Gen10 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant XL270d Gen9 Special Server
n/a HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Server
n/a HPE Synergy 660 Gen9 Compute Module
n/a HPE Synergy 480 Gen9 Compute Module
n/a HPE ProLiant WS460c Gen9 Graphics Server Blade
n/a HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 Server
n/a HPE Synergy 620 Gen9 Compute Module
n/a HPE ProLiant ML350 Gen10 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen9 Server
n/a HPE ProLiant XL170r Gen10 Server
n/a HPE Cloudline CL2100 Gen10 Server
n/a HPE Cloudline CL2200 Gen10 Server

References

support.hpe.com /hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf04020en_us
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-7205
NVD CVE-2020-7205

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