Daily Insight: Control Plane | Management Appliance Trust Decay

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Assumption Retired: Management appliances deployed deep inside trusted network segments require less monitoring because they are supposed to be trusted.

Insight: HPE OneView CVE-2025-37164 carries a perfect CVSS 10.0 score: unauthenticated remote code execution against the control plane that orchestrates servers, firmware, storage, and lifecycle management across enterprise data centers. Rapid7 now has a working Metasploit module. OneView compromise is not RCE on one host: it is centralized control over infrastructure at scale. The failure is not patching discipline. It is network architecture built on trust assumptions around privileged management platforms. When those assumptions collapse, the attacker already holds the brain of the data center.

Unresolved Edge: How many organizations have network segmentation that would actually prevent unauthenticated lateral movement to their infrastructure management appliances?