6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.005 Low
EPSS
Percentile
77.3%
upgrade.py in the hp-upgrade service in HP Linux Imaging and Printing
(HPLIP) 3.x through 3.13.11 launches a program from an http URL, which
allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code by gaining
control over the client-server data stream.
Author | Note |
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mdeslaur | Precise and earlier don’t have the upgrade.py file. In Quantal, Raring, Saucy and Trusty, upgrade.py actually bails out because the specific ubuntu version isn’t marked as “supported” in distros.dat, so even if this script is run as root, it doesn’t do anything, thankfully. |