CVE-2005-2773
RCE in Hp Openview Network Node Manager 6.2 – 7.50
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2005-2773 is a critical-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Hp Openview Network Node Manager. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 0.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; CISA has added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
HP OpenView Network Node Manager versions 6.2 through 7.50 contain a command injection vulnerability tracked as CVE-2005-2773 and CWE-77. The flaw resides in multiple CGI scripts including connectedNodes.ovpl, cdpView.ovpl, freeIPaddrs.ovpl, and ecscmg.ovpl, each of which passes an unsanitized "node" parameter directly to a shell.
Remote attackers can supply shell metacharacters in this parameter to execute arbitrary operating-system commands. No authentication or user interaction is required, and successful exploitation grants full control over the underlying host, consistent with the CVSS 9.8 rating reflecting network attack vector, low complexity, and total impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Public advisories referenced at the listed URLs, including Secunia 16555 and SecurityFocus 9150, document the issue and point to vendor patches or workarounds for the affected OpenView releases.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2005-2774
Vulnerability Data
HP OpenView Network Node Manager 6.2 through 7.50 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) node parameter to connectedNodes.ovpl, (2) cdpView.ovpl, (3) freeIPaddrs.ovpl, and (4) ecscmg.ovpl.
- CWE(s)
- KEV Date Added
- 25 March 2022
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
A.8.25 mandates secure SDLC practices including secure coding guidelines, security requirements, checkpoints, testing (scans/penetration), and developer training that reduce command injection defects, but leaves a minority slice (e.g. incomplete implementation of those practices, outsourced development without full assurance, or post-SDLC changes) where the weakness can still arise and be exploitable.
Application security requirements explicitly call for controls against injection flaws including command injection.
A.8.27 mandates security-by-design principles (e.g. distrust external input, secure session control, data validation/sanitization, least privilege) and design reviews that can stop command injection from being introduced, but this is only a minority slice of CWE-77 because the weakness can still arise in code that bypasses those principles, in non-reviewed components, or in runtime injection vectors the architecture review does not reach.
Secure coding standards require proper escaping and parameterization of commands, directly eliminating CWE-77.
Security testing in development catches command-injection vulnerabilities before release.
Hardening callouts derived
DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.
- No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-77, a class-level weakness, and none of its children carries one either.