CVE-2017-8961
Exploitation confirmed. First attested on 2024-08-15 by GCVE · kevintel, GCVE · shadowserver.
- Published2018-02-15
- WeaknessCWE-22
Am I affected?
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Description
A directory traversal vulnerability in HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) PLAT 7.3 E0504P02 could allow remote code execution.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2018-02-1522:29CVE publishedNVD
- 2024-08-1508:02Listed as exploited by GCVEGCVE
- 2024-08-1508:02Exploitation first reportedGCVE
- 2026-10-2319:23EPSS crossed 10 %FIRST EPSS
Observed activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2017-8961?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2017-8961?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.3 | = 7.3 | no fix published | NVD |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Fix
Advisories and patches
- support.hpe.comVendor Advisory
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
- GCVEexploitation2024-08-15
- NVDCVSS 3.08.8read 2026-10-23
- NVDCVSS 2.09read 2026-10-23
- NVDweakness (CWE)CWE-22read 2026-10-23
- FIRST EPSSEPSS score19.1 %read 2026-10-23
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Published
- 2018-02-15
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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