Brother printer flaw leaves thousands at risk of remote takeovers

[WYP]

A security flaw makes hundreds of printers vulnerable to attack, and the problem can't be fixed with an update.​

Read more about Brother's printer security flaw.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Haven't seen a 9.8 severity rating in quite a while. That's pretty bad. Can the flaw be used to go upstream to the connected device (wifi router or connected PC)? I didn't see that in the article.

 

[WYP]

Haven't seen a 9.8 severity rating in quite a while. That's pretty bad. Can the flaw be used to go upstream to the connected device (wifi router or connected PC)? I didn't see that in the article.

Not sure. More details in the vulnerabilities is on the Rapid7 post on the topic. It is linked in the article, but I will add it here.

Rapid7

Rapid7 conducted a zero-day research project into multifunction printers (MFP) from Brother Industries, Ltd. — discovering 8 new vulnerabilities. Learn more!

www.rapid7.com