hydra.exe in HP SAN/iQ before 9.5 on the HP Virtual SAN Appliance has a hardcoded password of L0CAlu53R for the global$agent account, which allows remote attackers to obtain access to a management service via a login: request to TCP port 13838.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2012-4362 is rated High Exploit Risk (62.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 22.12%, 96th percentile). Core evidence: 4 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18901 | exploit_db | edb | 2012-05-21 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| 18893 | exploit_db | edb | 2012-02-17 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ | |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-04-21 | 24.10% | 22.12% | -1.98% |
| 2 | 2025-09-15 | 7.75% | 24.10% | +16.35% |
| 3 | 2025-03-30 | — | 7.75% | — |
Full EPSS history (11 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
|
8.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18893/ | Exploit |
| http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18901/ | Exploit |
| http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/441363 | US Government Resource |