Was responsible to poke at BMC security in data centers.
BMCs lack the security fundamentals and often behave like cheap IoT knock-offs. They often use outdated kernels, libraries, and security mechanism.
BMCs lack the security fundamentals and often behave like cheap IoT knock-offs. They often use outdated kernels, libraries, and security mechanism.
I mostly work in the cloud now but when I last had to manage a bunch of physical machines we had a physically separate network accessed via its own VPN to get onto the BMCs. Because yeah, the security situation was a joke.
Id put money on there being preauth vulnerabilities in those things, judging by the engineering quality.
On a much less-important note, it might explain some weirdness I'm seeing lately with one of my home Supermicro servers. (The docs say the BMC should only listen on one port, but the switch still sees some degree of responsiveness on the normal non-management port when "off".)
Woe betide you if you run into one of the BMC implementations that shares a host network interface; no separate cable! These things are terrible from a security standpoint.