HP Easy Printer Care XMLCacheMgr Class ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

January 12th, 2012
ZDI-12-013 ZDI-CAN-1093

CVE ID

CVE-2011-4786

CVSS Score

9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C

Affected Vendors

Hewlett-Packard

Affected Products

Easy Printer Care

Vulnerability Details


This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of HP Easy Printer Care. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.

The specific flaw exists within the XMLCacheMgr class ActiveX control (CLSID 6F255F99-6961-48DC-B17E-6E1BCCBC0EE3). The CacheDocumentXMLWithId() method is vulnerable to directory traversal and arbitrary write, which allows an attacker to write malicious content to the filesystem. A remote attacker could leverage this vulnerability to gain code execution under the context of the web browser.

Additional Details

Hewlett-Packard has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay/?docId=emr_na-c02949847

Disclosure Timeline

  • 2011-04-01 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2012-01-12 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

Andrea Micalizzi aka rgod

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