HP Easy Printer Care Software up to 2.5 ActiveX Control HPTicketMgr.dll code injection

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A vulnerability was found in HP Easy Printer Care Software up to 2.5 (Printing Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing in the library HPTicketMgr.dll of the component ActiveX Control. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A certain ActiveX control in HPTicketMgr.dll in HP Easy Printer Care Software 2.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to download an arbitrary program onto a client machine, and execute this program, via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-2404 and CVE-2011-4787.

The weakness was disclosed 01/12/2012 by Andrea Micalizzi (rgod) as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2011-4786 since 12/13/2011. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.

A public exploit has been developed in Ruby. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as highly functional. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 55832 (HP Easy Printer Care Software ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 11701.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (72370) and Tenable (55832). The entries 59913 and 58265 are pretty similar.

Productinfo

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Printing Software

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Easy Printer Care Software

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commercial

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Code injection
CWE: CWE-94 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
ATT&CK: T1059

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Remote: Yes

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Status: Highly functional
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Nessus ID: 55832
Nessus Name: HP Easy Printer Care Software ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
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Saint ID: exploit_info/hp_easy_printer_care_xmlcachemgr_class
Saint Name: HP Easy Printer Care XMLCacheMgr Class ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution

MetaSploit ID: hp_easy_printer_care_xmlcachemgr.rb
MetaSploit Name: HP Easy Printer Care XMLCacheMgr Class ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: hp.com

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Andrea Micalizzi (rgod)
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2011-4786 (🔍)
X-Force: 72370
Vulnerability Center: 34307 - HP Easy Printer Care Software 2.5 and Earlier HPTicketMgr.dll Remote Code Execution Vulnerability, High
SecurityFocus: 51396 - HP Easy Printer Care Software 'XMLCacheMgr' ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 11/28/2021 18:00
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (67), 04/09/2017 13:37 (19), 11/28/2021 18:00 (4)
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