CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2013-4829

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published: Oct 04, 2013 | Modified: Oct 09, 2019
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
1.5 LOW
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

HP LaserJet M4555, M525, and M725; LaserJet flow MFP M525c; LaserJet Enterprise color flow MFP M575c; Color LaserJet CM4540, M575, and M775; and ScanJet Enterprise 8500fn1 FutureSmart devices allow local users to read images of arbitrary scanned documents via unspecified vectors.

Weakness

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Color_laserjet_cm4540 Hp - (including) - (including)
Color_laserjet_cm4540f Hp - (including) - (including)
Color_laserjet_cm4540fskm Hp - (including) - (including)
Color_laserjet_m575dn Hp - (including) - (including)
Color_laserjet_m575f Hp - (including) - (including)
Color_laserjet_m775dn Hp - (including) - (including)
Color_laserjet_m775f Hp - (including) - (including)
Color_laserjet_m775z Hp - (including) - (including)
Color_laserjet_m775z+ Hp - (including) - (including)
Laserjet_enterprise_color_flow_m575c Hp - (including) - (including)
Laserjet_flow_m525c Hp - (including) - (including)
Laserjet_m4555 Hp - (including) - (including)
Laserjet_m4555f Hp - (including) - (including)
Laserjet_m4555fskm Hp - (including) - (including)
Laserjet_m4555h Hp - (including) - (including)
Laserjet_m525dn Hp - (including) - (including)
Laserjet_m525f Hp - (including) - (including)
Laserjet_m725dn Hp - (including) - (including)
Laserjet_m725f Hp - (including) - (including)
Laserjet_m725z Hp - (including) - (including)
Laserjet_m725z+ Hp - (including) - (including)
Scanjet_enterprise_8500fn1 Hp - (including) - (including)

Extended Description

There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:

Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:

Information exposures can occur in different ways:

It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

References