22-Year-Old IPMI Flaw Exposes 24,000 Servers to Offline Password Cracking

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22-Year-Old IPMI Flaw Exposes 24,000 Servers to Offline Password Cracking

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22-Year-Old IPMI Flaw Exposes 24,000 Servers to Offline Password Cracking

Wed Jul 29 2026

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Researchers found 24,650 public BMC interfaces leaking IPMI password hashes, exposing servers to offline password cracking through a decades-old protocol flaw.