CVE-2018-5923 is a critical vulnerability affecting various HP LaserJet, PageWide, and OfficeJet Enterprise printers, stemming from insufficient signature checking in solution applications. This allows for potential arbitrary code execution with a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity, requiring no user interaction, and leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is currently no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it has not been added to the CISA KEV catalog, with minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2308974_579754CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:color_laserjet_cm4540_mfp_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 2308974_579753CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:color_laserjet_cp5525_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 2406087_000017CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:color_laserjet_enterprise_flow_mfp_m681f_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 2406087_000017CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:color_laserjet_enterprise_flow_mfp_m681z_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 2406087_000017CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:color_laserjet_enterprise_flow_mfp_m682z_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.