Hundreds of brotherly printers models have a security flaw that cannot be corrected

A security company has found This has an impact on hundreds of models of brother printers. The company has published firmware updates to manage seven of these vulnerabilities, but a security failure cannot be corrected.

The brother said he would solve the remaining problem during the manufacturing process of future printers, which does not help current owners. The company recommends that users modify the default main password. Otherwise, the bad players could access the impacted devices remotely. Although it is mainly an impact on 700 brother printers, 59 units manufactured by Fujifilm, Toshiba, Ricoh and Konica Minolta are also in danger.

The security flaw is called CVE-2024-51978 in the national vulnerability database and has a . In other words, attackers can generate the default administration password as long as they know the printer serial number.

Once it is done, bad players could exploit the other seven vulnerabilities if the user does not distribute them. These remaining defects allow hackers to recover sensitive information, block the device, open TCP connections, make HTTP requests and reveal passwords for connected networks.

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