Secunia has a new advisory posted that HP System Management Homepage users will want to take note of - an issue that's been found with how the PHP for this software is written that can lead to exploitable issues.

HP has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in HP System Management Homepage, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

This issue has been reported in versions prior to 2.1.8 on Linux and Windows and the solution is easy - just upgrade to a newer version such as 2.1.8 or later. The Secunia post has links to some of the needed downloads.