WTF HP? Your M203dn laser printer defaults to open SNMP write?!

2017-10-04 18:13:00

screenshot from the web interface

We've just bought a new laser printer, mostly for my daughter's schoolwork. Installation was a snap as both Windows and MacOS have made it a fool-proof process. MacOS even gave me a button labeled "Visit printer website"! Of course that's gonna pique my interest!

Yup, the HP Laserjet Pro M203dn (as it's fully named) has a wonderfully helpful web interface! By default, there's no username or password, there's no login prompt whatsoever. Just open for everyone to browse. Which is where I stumble upon the screenshot I'm showing above. Of course the SNMP community strings default to public/public. Why not? But who in the seven hells decided to make that SNMP daemon -writable-?! That's asking for trouble!

... aside from the "no username or password on the admin panel" of course. Ye gods! O_o

Oh and of course the certificate on the https web server was not signed by HP's CA. Because of course I wouldn't want to verify that nobody messed with the firmware or the certs on the printer. 

... *checks around* Yep, HP also don't have a bug bounty program. =_=


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