CVE-2008-2940 — Hplip vulnerability

CWE-2648 documents7 sources
Severity
7.2HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 86.59%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Debian HplipHP Linux Imaging AND Printing Project
Timeline
PublishedAug 14
Latest updateMay 1

Description

The alert-mailing implementation in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 1.6.7 allows local users to gain privileges and send e-mail messages from the root account via vectors related to the setalerts message, and lack of validation of the device URI associated with an event message.

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:L/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages2 packages

▶debiandebian/hplip< hplip 2.8.6-1 (bookworm)

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-5gwr-h45h-hxgj: The alert-mailing implementation in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 1↗2022-05-01
▶
OSV
CVE-2008-2940: The alert-mailing implementation in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 1↗2008-08-14
▶

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
HPLIP vulnerabilities↗2008-11-24
▶
Ubuntu
HPLIP vulnerabilities↗2008-11-19
▶
Red Hat
hpssd of hplip allows unprivileged user to trigger alert mail↗2008-08-12
▶
Debian
CVE-2008-2940: hplip - The alert-mailing implementation in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 1.6.7 ...↗2008
▶

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2008-2940 hpssd of hplip allows unprivileged user to trigger alert mail↗2008-07-14
▶