HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC) Enterprise Software Platform is designed on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) using a business application flow model as its core and featuring an on-demand, modularized structure. It is capable of managing, monitoring and controlling of enterprise class networks.

IMC Branch Intelligent Management Software (BIMS) is an IMC module that supports the remote management of customer premise equipment (CPE) in WANs. The web interface to the management console is accessible via the following URL:

 http://server-address:8080/ 

An arbitrary file-upload vulnerability exists in the HP Intelligent Management Center Branch Intelligent Management Software (BIMS) module. The vulnerable function fails to properly sanitize the user supplied directory traversal pattern, which allows arbitrary creation/writing of files of any type anywhere on the server.

Dell SonicWALL Threat team has researched this vulnerability and released the following IPS signatures to detect them:

• 7578 HP Intelligent BIMS UploadServlet Arbitrary File Upload
• 7581 HP Intelligent BIMS UploadServlet Arbitrary File Upload 2

This vulnerability is referred by CVE as CVE-2013-4822.