PSA: Default Configuration IPMI Vulnerability on Supermicro Boards

Arcadiy Ivanov — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 08:28:26 +0000

I’m using Supermicro boards (X11SBA-F) for virtually all of my servers, including the firewall. These boards come with IPMI enabled. The IPMI default configuration vulnerability I’m going to describe here rears its ugly head in dual-homed machines and machines plugged directly to WAN, putting them specifically in great danger. IPMI is an Intel’s management interface … Continue reading "PSA: Default Configuration IPMI Vulnerability on Supermicro Boards"

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PSA: X11SBA-F rev 1.01 secondary LAN port timeouts

Arcadiy Ivanov — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 02:06:24 +0000

Hopefully this post will save someone time, money and aggravation. If you’re considering buying Supermicro X11SBA-F/LN4F you need to be aware that at the very least some boards (and possibly all) with a hardware revision 1.01 have serious and seemingly non-correctable issues with a secondary PCI-E bridge that feeds secondary LANs. DO NOT BUY X11SBA rev … Continue reading "PSA: X11SBA-F rev 1.01 secondary LAN port timeouts"

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PSA: Default Configuration IPMI Vulnerability on Supermicro Boards

PSA: X11SBA-F rev 1.01 secondary LAN port timeouts