Thousands of Servers Can Be Backdoored by Exploiting Buggy Motherboard Controllers Thousands of servers can be compromised by exploiting vulnerabilities in baseboard management controllers (BMCs), which are used to manage enterprise servers.
For over a decade, researchers have been warning about the dangers of BMCs, but manufacturers and administrators have failed to address these critical vulnerabilities.
The BMC plays a crucial role in managing enterprise servers, providing "lights out" and "out of band" management capabilities that allow administrators to monitor and control even unresponsive systems.