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HP D2D / StorOnce Storage unit backdoors (lolware.net)
11 points by jfriedly 4724 days ago
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Some discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6024033

HP's security bulletin: https://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/pu...

HP StoreVirtual products are storage appliances that use a custom operating system, LeftHand OS, which is not accessible to the end user. Limited access is available to the user via the HP StoreVirtual Command-Line Interface (CLiQ) however root access is blocked. However any privilege-escalation attacks would probably work.

The SHA-1 plaintext is badg3r5
The password can be easily found by googling the SHA1 hash.
And if no-one had posted the password it's easy enough to use any of the online "hash crackers" to get the password.