CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-20869

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published: Jan 04, 2022 | Modified: Jan 13, 2022
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
2.9 LOW
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor vulnerability in KONICA MINOLTA bizhub series (bizhub C750i G00-35 and earlier, bizhub C650i/C550i/C450i G00-B6 and earlier, bizhub C360i/C300i/C250i G00-B6 and earlier, bizhub 750i/650i/550i/450i G00-37 and earlier, bizhub 360i/300i G00-33 and earlier, bizhub C287i/C257i/C227i G00-19 and earlier, bizhub 306i/266i/246i/226i G00-B6 and earlier, bizhub C759/C659 GC7-X8 and earlier, bizhub C658/C558/C458 GC7-X8 and earlier, bizhub 958/808/758 GC7-X8 and earlier, bizhub 658e/558e/458e GC7-X8 and earlier, bizhub C287/C227 GC7-X8 and earlier, bizhub 287/227 GC7-X8 and earlier, bizhub 368e/308e GC7-X8 and earlier, bizhub C368/C308/C258 GC9-X4 and earlier, bizhub 558/458/368/308 GC9-X4 and earlier, bizhub C754e/C654e GDQ-M0 and earlier, bizhub 754e/654e GDQ-M0 and earlier, bizhub C554e/C454e GDQ-M1 and earlier, bizhub C364e/C284e/C224e GDQ-M1 and earlier, bizhub 554e/454e/364e/284e/224e GDQ-M1 and earlier, bizhub C754/C654 C554/C454 GR1-M0 and earlier, bizhub C364/C284/C224 GR1-M0 and earlier, bizhub 754/654 GR1-M0 and earlier, bizhub C4050i/C3350i/C4000i/C3300i G00-B6 and earlier, bizhub C3320i G00-B6 and earlier, bizhub 4750i/4050i G00-22 and earlier, bizhub 4700i G00-22 and earlier, bizhub C3851FS/C3851/C3351 GC9-X4 and earlier, and bizhub 4752/4052 GC9-X4 and earlier) allows an attacker on the adjacent network to obtain some of user credentials if LDAP server authentication is enabled via a specific SOAP message.

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
Bizhub_c750i_firmware Konicaminolta * g00-e9 (excluding)

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.

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