Dangerous security defects are found in hundreds of BROTHER printers that can allow attackers to access remote access devices that still use virtual passwords. Eight new weaknesses have been discovered, none of which can be fixed by correcting fixed programs, in 689 types of Protier Home and Enterprise Printers Security Company Rapid7.
Disadvantages also affect 59 models of Fujifilm, Toshiba, Ricoh and Konica Minolta printers, but not every weakness was found in each printer model. If you have my brother’s printer, you can check this Find out if your model is affected here.
The most dangerous security defect, followed under Cve-2024-51978 in the National Weak DatabaseHe has 9.8 CVSS “critical” classification The attackers are allowed to create a virtual official password for the device if they know the series of the printer they target. This allows the attackers to exploit the other seven weaknesses discovered by RAPID7, which includes recovering sensitive information, destroying the device, opening TCP connections, making arbitrary HTTP requests, and exposing passwords for connected network services.
While seven of these security defects can be fixed Detailed fixed program updates in the RAPID7 reportThe brother indicated to the company that Cve-2014-51978 itself “cannot be fully treated in fixed programs”, and will be repaired by a change in the process of manufacturing for future versions of affected printer models. For current models, Brothher recommends that users change their virtual password for their printer Web management list for the device
Changing virtual manufacturing passwords is something that we should do when we take a new device to the house anyway, and these printer gaps are a good example of the reason.
