CVE-2019-19642: Supermicro x8sti-F BIOS

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

On SuperMicro X8STi-F motherboards with IPMI firmware 2.06 and BIOS 02.68, the Virtual Media feature allows OS Command Injection by authenticated attackers who can send HTTP requests to the IPMI IP address. This requires a POST to /rpc/setvmdrive.asp with shell metacharacters in ShareHost or ShareName. The attacker can achieve a persistent backdoor.

Affected products

• Supermicro x8sti-F BIOS: version 02.68 only
• Supermicro x8sti-F Firmware: version 2.06 only

Published 2019-12-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.