Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-3163 - Information Exposure vulnerability in HP Multifunction Peripheral Digital Sending Software 4.91.20/4.91.21

047910
CVSS 1.2 - LOW
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
local
high complexity
hp
CWE-200
nessus
NVD
Published: 2011-10-23
Updated: 2012-02-14

Summary

HP MFP Digital Sending Software 4.9x through 4.91.21 allows local users to obtain sensitive workflow-metadata information via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Hp
2

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Subverting Environment Variable Values
    The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
  • Footprinting
    An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
  • Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible)
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
  • Browser Fingerprinting
    An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
  • Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
    This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.

Nessus

NASL familyWindows
NASL idHP_MFP_DSS_4_20.NASL
descriptionThe remote Windows host contains a version of HP MFP Digital Sending Software version 4.9x that
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id56651
published2011-10-26
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2011-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56651
titleHP MFP Digital Sending Software 4.9x <= 4.91.21 Local Workflow Metadata Information Disclosure
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#


include("compat.inc");


if (description)
{
  script_id(56651);
  script_version("1.6");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/15 20:50:27");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2011-3163");
  script_bugtraq_id(50297);

  script_name(english:"HP MFP Digital Sending Software 4.9x <= 4.91.21 Local Workflow Metadata Information Disclosure");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the version of hpbs2e.exe");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Windows host contains an application affected by a local
information disclosure vulnerability."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The remote Windows host contains a version of HP MFP Digital Sending
Software version 4.9x that's 4.91.21 or earlier.  It is reportedly 
affected by a local information disclosure vulnerability that could 
result in disclosure of personal information in workflow metadata."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also", 
    value:"https://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520162/30/0/threaded"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Install HP MFP Digital Sending Software version 4.20.

Note that, while 4.9x represents a re-architecture of HP MFP Digital
Signing Software 4.20 to enable support for FutureSmart devices, the
only fix HP currently provides is to move to 4.20 from the 4.9x
release branch."
  );
 script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
 script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2011/10/20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/10/20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2011/10/26");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:hp:multifunction_peripheral_digital_sending_software");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Windows");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");

  script_dependencies("hp_mfp_dss_installed.nasl");
  script_require_keys("SMB/HP_MFP_DSS/Version");

  exit(0);
}

include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");

version = get_kb_item_or_exit("SMB/HP_MFP_DSS/Version");

ver = split(version, sep:".", keep:FALSE);
for (i=0; i<max_index(ver); i++)
  ver[i] = int(ver[i]);

# nb: HP's advisory says "v4.91.21 and all previous 4.9x versions" are affected.
#     also, 4.9x is a different branch that exists alongside 4.20 and earlier. 
if (
  ver[0] == 4 &&
  (
    ver[1] == 90 ||
    (ver[1] == 91 && ver[2] <= 21)
  )
)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0)
  {
    path = get_kb_item('SMB/HP_MFP_DSS/Path');
    if (isnull(path)) path = 'n/a';

    report = 
      '\n  Path              : ' + path +
      '\n  Installed version : ' + version +
      '\n  Fixed version     : 4.20\n';
    security_note(port:get_kb_item("SMB/transport"), extra:report);
  }
  else security_note(get_kb_item("SMB/transport"));
}
else exit(0, "The host is not affected since HP MFP Digital Sending Software "+version+" is installed.");

References