IPMI vulnerabilities

Tue Jul 2 15:54:30 UTC 2013

> From: Jeroen Massar [mailto:jeroen at massar.ch]
> On 2013-07-02 16:51 , Steven Bellovin wrote:
> > http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/ipmi/
> >
> > Capsule summary: watch out!
> 
> Indeed! But it is should be logical, as IPMI is supposed to be for OOB
> access right? :)
> 
> Anybody not putting them behind a properly restricted firewall and/or
> VLAN is asking for issues... typical IPMI boxes run outdated linux
> kernels, with nice olddated userspace and a whole lot of tools that one
> can not really restrict access to, thus it is quite silly to have that
> access open to the public.

That same reasoning has worked wonders at keeping SCADA systems off the public internet too.

Jamie