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Re: [Full-disclosure] HP Photosmart vulnerabilities

Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] HP Photosmart vulnerabilities
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:13:57 -0500

Dude SNMP can be used by their software to query the printer for toner  
levels or that it is online. You tell me what exactly you are getting  
from a printer like that via SNMP besides print job status and ink  
levels? And you are a stranger in my home on my network? I'd have the  
po-po beating you like Rodney King before you had to worry about what  
is on my printer.

If I really have to explain to you why you don't need SSL to configure  
a home / home office printer that costs $200 and is intended for a  
personal private network then really there is no point in explaining  
it. Security is meant to reduce risk. When you explain to me what the  
risk is then you can state what the benefit of disabling SNMP and  
adding SSL would be to reduce that risk. There... I just wasted 10  
seconds of my life explaining it.



On Dec 28, 2007, at 11:01 AM, <uncleron@hushmail.com> <uncleron@hushmail.com 
wrote:

A low price for the printer does not give the vendor a free pass
for shipping insecure products.  Since this type of printer is
targeted for home/home office use, it would be valid to ask why
SNMP is enabled in the first place.

Please explain how this printer would be any less easy to use if HP
had used non default community strings in the firmware?  In a
home/home office environment, the only thing that might have a
valid need to communicate with the printer via SNMP would be HP's
software, which could just as easily use a non default community
string.


On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:32:29 -0600 Joshua Levitsky
<jlevitsk@joshie.com> wrote:
Do you mean to tell me someone can come to my house and after I
let
them on my network they can see how soon I need toner? Oh crap I
better not let anyone over for New Year's!!!

There is a reason it's a $200 home/home office printer. It's not
meant
to sit on the internet. It's not meant to be in a military
facility.
It is meant to be simple to use.

I think next I shall contact Sears because I suspect someone can
steal
my water by simply placing a glass up to the front of the fridge
without my knowledge, and I'm not positive but I think they can
take
my ice as well.



On Dec 28, 2007, at 10:16 AM, <uncleron@hushmail.com> wrote:

HP Photosmart C6280 (and probably other) network printers ship
with
insecure default settings.  The printer ships with SNMP enabled
using the default community strings for both public and private.
HP does not document the use of SNMP, or provide a way for users
to
change the default community strings.  The printer also includes
a
web based admin tool which runs over http, without even an
option
for ssl.

Several attempts to contact HP have proven futile.

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