Hundreds of fraternal printer models have an unimaginable security defect

I found a security company That affects hundreds of brother’s printer models. The company has released fixed program updates to deal with seven of these weaknesses, but a single security defect cannot be corrected.

The brother indicated that he will fix the remaining problem during the process of manufacturing future printers, which do not help the existing owners. The company recommends that users change the main virtual password. Otherwise, poor actors can reach the distance of affected devices. Although it mainly affects about 700 my brother, 59 units made by Fujifilm, Toshiba, Ricoh and Konica Minolta are also at risk.

The security defect is called CVE-2024-51978 in the national weakness database, and it has a . Simply put, attackers can create a virtual official password as long as they know the printer serial number.

Once you are completed, bad actors will be able to exploit the other seven weaknesses if the user does not go. These remaining defects allow infiltrators to recover sensitive information, disrupt the device, open TCP connections, make http requests and detect passwords for connected networks.

So what should you do? Check this list of affected printers . Most importantly, changing the default password.