BMC, hack, idrac, ipmi, qemu, security, system, virtual

BMCs under Qemu repo

August 24, 2026

(Took a hatchet to the last post, lol. Here’s the update!) For awhile I’d had a little petting zoo of qemu’d BMCs, so I decided to write it all up...

audit, code, crypto, hack, idrac, ipmi, python, security

new tool release: zipmi

August 17, 2026

zipmi – https://github.com/zenfish/zipmi – is a pure-Python IPMI/BMC stack — an `ipmitool`-style CLI plus a library where every byte is an inspectable and mangleable object. Built for people/AI (are AIs...

BMC, claude, dell, hack, idrac, ipmi

unpacking iDRAC9/iDRAC10 (dracula 🦇)

June 28, 2026

Awhile back I unpacked some older idrac firmware for fun… had to jump through some hoops to do so, so when I had to unpack idrac9/idrac10 firwmare, decided to improve...

BMC, hack, ipmi

unpacking Dell’s iDRAC schtuff

September 9, 2025

I hadn’t look at Dell’s iDRAC stuff in forever… and it appeared they’d changed some of the formatting of the iDRAC updates/etc. since then. I didn’t see anything out there,...

ipmi, risk, security, tech

Remotely Access Live Supermicro Firmware+

February 1, 2025

TLDR; a vendor supported/supplied utility allows download of live BMC1 firmware/configuration on (at least) some SuperMicro BMCs. It’s hard to tell who might be affected, but the utility used was...

ipmi, tech

trivial command line…..

September 11, 2016

Was just noticing the shell option in ipmitool.. wondered if you could echo a set of commands to it via stdin, and sure enough… the final bit is sending it...