July 7, 2017
Hitachi, Ltd. IT Platform Products Management Division
Hitachi Data Ingestor has the following vulnerability.
Security Information ID
hitachi-sec-2017-305
Samba program used by Hitachi Data Ingester (HDI) are vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2017-7494), allowing a malicious client to upload a shared library to a writable share, and then cause the server to load and execute it.
The following table shows the affected products.
| Product Name |
Affected versions |
Vulnerability ID |
Remark |
| Hitachi Data Ingestor |
3.0.1 or later |
CVE-2017-7494 |
- |
- Interim risk reduction
- Until the fixed version is applied, please take following actions to reduce the risk.
Disable guest account to the CIFS share. (Default: disabled)
Set the password for user accounts and manage them in appropriate password policy.
Filter clients by restricting accesses to CIFS shares or by setting up firewall to HDI.
In case of data loss by attack, backup the data in HDI.
- Permanent solution
- Update to the fixed version. For the release date of the fixed version, please refer to the table below.
| Product Name |
Fixed version |
Release date |
| Hitachi Data Ingestor |
6.2.0-03 |
June 9th 2017 |
- July 7, 2017: This security information page is published.
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