CVE-2026-79842 Critical · 9.1 EPSS 0.3%
An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in HPE Intelligent Management Center (iMC) prior to v7.3 E0713
Hewlett Packard Enterprise · HPE Intelligent Management Center (iMC)
Summary
An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in HPE Intelligent Management Center (iMC) prior to v7.3 E0713, caused by missing authorization. HPE iMC deployments running versions before v7.3 E0713 are affected.
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14.1 / 100
- Exploited
- Not confirmed
- Reports
- 0
- Tactics
- 0/15
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Disclosed on 8 Oct 2026. No public exploit code or confirmed exploitation is recorded.
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No techniques linkedNo ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.
What security researchers reported
Not named in any threat report yetAlso mentioned in 12 community threat pulses (AlienVault OTX)
Weaker evidencePulses are indicator collections that anyone can publish. A mention is not confirmation of exploitation.
- Known_Cve | Oct 21, 2026 | Part 1/420 Oct 2026
- Known_Cve | Oct 20, 2026 | Part 1/419 Oct 2026
- Known_Cve | Oct 19, 2026 | Part 1/418 Oct 2026
- Known_Cve | Oct 18, 2026 | Part 1/417 Oct 2026
- Known_Cve | Oct 17, 2026 | Part 1/416 Oct 2026
- Known_Cve | Oct 16, 2026 | Part 1/315 Oct 2026
- 6 more on OTX