importantSYS.SOURCE: The Hacker News• 2026-07-28T20:11:36+05:30
24,650 Internet-Exposed BMCs Reveal IPMI Password Hashes Due to CVE-2013-4786 Vulnerability
Over 24,650 internet-exposed BMCs reveal IPMI password hashes due to a 20-year-old vulnerability (CVE-2013-4786), enabling offline credential cracking and posing significant risks to data center security.
Cybersecurity researchers have sounded an alert after finding more than 36,000 Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) management interfaces exposing Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) protocol to the public internet.
Of the 36,872 internet-exposed server-management interfaces running IPMI, 24,650 have been found to disclose password-derived authentication hashes before login due to
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