CVE-2017-8960 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting HPE MSA 1040 and MSA 2040 SAN Storage devices running firmware version GL220P008 and earlier. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to gain full control over the storage system remotely, without requiring any user interaction. While there are no known public exploits or active exploitation in the wild, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating potential interest from threat actors.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= gl220p008CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:msa_1040_san_storage_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= gl220p008CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:msa_2040_san_storage_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.