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Re: Unsecure Ftpd on HP PSC 2510 Printer

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lawrence MacIntyre)
Fri Nov 12 04:58:41 2004

From: Lawrence MacIntyre <macintyrelp@ornl.gov>
To: Justin Rush <jrush@scout.wisc.edu>
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
In-Reply-To: <20041110212615.GA22293@fromage.scout.wisc.edu>
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:38:43 -0500
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So why is this insecure?  Why is this different from port 631 (ipp) or
port 515 (lpd)?  It's a printer.  You give it a file, it prints it.  The
port or protocol it uses is immaterial...

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 15:26 -0600, Justin Rush wrote:
> Product Name: HP PSC 2510
> Summary: Ftp print service is not configurable
> 
> 	This printer comes with an ftp daemon which allows anonymous
> access, and drops the user into a write only directory.  By default
> anyone from anywhere can drop a file into this directory and the
> printer will print the document.  There is no documentation about
> this feature, nor is there anyway to change (enable/disable) it
> via any of their software or on the printer itself.  HP Tech.
> support says that if you don't want this feature then you should
> hook up the printer as a local printer, however this printer
> comes with both wireless and wired connectors on the back.
> 
> Justin Rush
> jrush@scout.wisc.edu
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