Hundreds of Brother printer models have security flaw that can’t be patched

Found a security company These hundreds of brothers affect the printer model. The company left the firmware updates to manage seven of these weaknesses, but a security defect cannot be patched.

The brother said that future printers that do not help the current owners will resolve the remaining issue during the production process. The company recommends users change the standard key password. Otherwise, evil actors can access effective devices. First of all, although about 700 brothers influenced the printer, 59 products produced by Fujifilm, Toshiba, Ricoh and Konica Minola are also at risk.

The security defect is called CVE-2024-51978 in the national weakness base and a . Simply sheep, the attackers were able to create a standard management password as long as they knew the printer serial number.

After this was done, the bad actors would be able to use the other seven weakness if the user did not fix them. These defects allow hackers to obtain sensitive information, crush the device, opening TCP connections, implement HTTP inquiries and discover passwords for connected networks.

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