SUPPORT COMMUNICATION- SECURITY BULLETIN HPSBHF03119 rev.3 - HP DreamColor Professional Display running Bash Shell, Remote Code Execution

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-6271   CVE-2014-7169  

A potential security vulnerability has been identified with HP DreamColor Z27x Professional Display running Bash Shell. This is the Bash Shell vulnerability known as "ShellShock" which could be exploited remotely to allow execution of code. note: Only the HP DreamColor Z27x model is vulnerable.

Potential Security Impact:
Remote code execution

VULNERABILITY SUMMARY

A potential security vulnerability has been identified with HP DreamColor Z27x Professional Display running Bash Shell. This is the Bash Shell vulnerability known as "ShellShock" which could be exploited remotely to allow execution of code.
note:
Only the HP DreamColor Z27x model is vulnerable.
Reference Number
  • CVE-2014-6271
  • CVE-2014-7169
  • SSRT101725
SUPPORTED SOFTWARE VERSIONS*: ONLY impacted versions are listed.
  • HP DreamColor Z27x
BACKGROUND
CVSS 2.0 Base Metrics
Reference
Base Vector
Base Score
CVE-2014-6271
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
10.0
CVE-2014-7169
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
10.0
Information on CVSS is documented in HP Customer Notice: HPSN-2008-002
RESOLUTION
HP is actively working to address this vulnerability for the impacted product versions of HP DreamColor Z27x Professional Display. The display provides calibration and remote management functionality running on embedded Linux, which includes a bash shell. The shell is not accessible via the standard calibration or remote management interfaces.
This bulletin will be revised when the firmware update is released.
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REVISION HISTORY : Version:1 (rev.1) - 30 September 2014 Initial release; Version:2 (rev.2) - 1 October 2014 Clarified Resolution; Version:3 (rev.3) - 26 July 2017 Updated boilerplate reuse text and removed extra section tag from Resolution section.