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Threats / Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) / CVE-2025-37164
CVE-2025-37164 · EUVD no mirror located · GCVE no mirror located Verified 2026-06-22

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) OneView vulnerability

HPE OneView contains a code injection vulnerability (CWE-94) allowing remote unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems.

Verdict

Today item — known-exploited.

A remote code execution flaw in HPE OneView enables unauthenticated attackers to inject and execute malicious code. With an EPSS score of 0.796 and confirmed active exploitation, this poses immediate risk to infrastructure management systems.

CISA KEV Yes · 2026-01-073EPSS 0.89733 (verify live)4Exploit Weaponized · public PoC5
01

Is it exploitable?

— the evidence, ranked above the score
Exploit available
Fully weaponized — public exploit code is cataloged for this vulnerability.We link the existence of the exploit; we do not host or redistribute payloads.
Reported exploitation
20 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-01-07).
CISA KEV ↗Confirmed
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.89733 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
Affected: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), OneView. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
NVD ↗Reported
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-94 Code Injection — weakness family: Injection.CWE assignment from the public NVD record; the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
NVD ↗Reported
WeaknessCWE-94 · Code InjectionInjection
02

Who’s exploiting it?

— attribution turns risk into urgency
Attribution not established

No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.

03

Why it matters

— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board
1

Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1

Attacker
I craft a malicious payload exploiting the code injection flaw and send it to an exposed OneView instance without authentication.
Business
Attackers gain direct code execution on critical infrastructure management systems, enabling lateral movement and persistent access.
2

Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2

Attacker
I execute commands with the privileges of the OneView application to enumerate the environment and identify high-value targets.
Business
Compromise of OneView exposes credentials, configuration data, and management interfaces for connected HPE infrastructure.
3

Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3

Attacker
I establish persistence and pivot to managed servers, storage, and networking equipment through OneView's administrative access.
Business
Attackers achieve control over enterprise data center infrastructure, enabling data theft, service disruption, or supply chain compromise.
04

What to do

— defensible action
  • Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
05

Coverage & confidence

— what we know, and what we don’t

Established (cited)

  • KEV listing (CISA)
  • EPSS probability (FIRST)
  • Weaponized exploit available (VulnCheck)
  • 20 reported-exploitation source(s)
  • CWE weakness mapping (NVD)
  • Public exploit availability
  • Catalogued by hpe (CNA)
  • Coverage gaps — stated, not hidden

  • No EUVD / GCVE mirror in feed — single-authority dependency for the identifier.
  • EPSS & exposure are time-varying; verify live at the source.
  • Threat-actor attribution not established from feed data — absence of a name is not absence of compromise.
  • No finder/reporter credit recorded in the public CVE entry — the work behind this find is unattributed.
  • Disclosure & credit2
    Catalogued by hpeCNA
    Credited with finding itNo finder named in the public CVE record — the work behind this find is unattributed.