# CVE-2025-37164: HPE OneView - RCE

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2025-37164 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-37164

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 10.0
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE OneView
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-94 (Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection'))
- **Tags:** enterprise_software

## Description

A remote code execution issue exists in HPE OneView.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2025-37164](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-37164) is a critical remote code execution vulnerability in HPE OneView, allowing unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems over the network. This flaw could be exploited to gain full control of the system, leading to data breaches, service disruption, or further compromise of the enterprise environment.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 29th of December 2025.

Data from the CrowdSec community indicates that exploitation of CVE-2025-37164 is highly selective and intelligence-driven. Threat actors use advanced reconnaissance and carefully choose their targets, often as part of sophisticated campaigns or advanced persistent threat operations.
Telemetry from the CrowdSec network also shows that exploitation activity for CVE-2025-37164 remains steady week-over-week. Attack volumes are consistent with long-term trends, indicating sustained interest from threat actors. CVE-2025-37164 continues to be an active part of the threat landscape and will likely remain this way for the forseeable future.

Attackers exploit the `/rest/id-pools/executeCommand` endpoint using crafted PUT requests to execute arbitrary system commands, enabling remote code execution on vulnerable HPE OneView instances.

## Timeline

- 2025-12-16: CVE Published. CVE-2025-37164 is published to NVD.
- 2025-12-29: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2025-37164 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2026-01-07: CISA KEV. CVE-2025-37164 is added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog by CISA.
- 2026-01-19: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2025-37164 for the first time.
- 2026-01-28: CISA Remediation Deadline. Expiration of the CISA remediation deadline as described in [BOD 22-01](https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-22-01-reducing-significant-risk-known-exploited-vulnerabilities).

## References

- https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbgn4985en_us&docLocale=en_US
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/linux/http/hpe_oneview_rce.rb
- https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbgn04985en_us&docLocale=en_US#vulnerability-summary-1
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-37164.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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