CVE-2024-51978
An unauthenticated attacker who knows the target device's serial number, can generate the default administrator password for the device. An unauthenticated attacker can first discover the target device's serial number via CVE-2024-51977 over HTTP/HTTPS/IPP, or via a PJL request, or via an SNMP request.
Scoring
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- CVSS base score
- 9.8
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 18.70%
- CWE
- CWE-1391
- Published
- 2025-06-25
- Last modified
- 2026-03-30
Affected products
- Brother Industries, Ltd HL-L8260CDN
- Brother Industries, Ltd HL-L8260CDW
- Brother Industries, Ltd HL-L8360CDW
- Brother Industries, Ltd HL-L8360CDWT
- Brother Industries, Ltd HL-L9310CDW
- Brother Industries, Ltd DCP-L8410CDW
- Brother Industries, Ltd MFC-L8610CDW
- Brother Industries, Ltd MFC-L8690CDW
Weakness type
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