CVE-2016-1896 is a critical race condition vulnerability affecting Lexmark printers with specific firmware versions (ATL, CB, PP, YK before .02.049). This flaw allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by exploiting incorrect detection of the security-jumper status during the initialization process. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), it presents a high risk due to its network-based attack vector, low complexity, and potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= cb.02.048CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:lexmark:printer_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= atl.02.048CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:lexmark:printer_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= yk.02.048CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:lexmark:printer_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= pp.02.048CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:lexmark:printer_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.