What is CVE-2018-17944?

CVE-2018-17944 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Lexmark Cx725h, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2019-03-12.

How severe is CVE-2018-17944?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Lexmark Cx725h

CVE-2018-17944

On certain Lexmark devices that communicate with an LDAP or SMTP server, a malicious administrator can discover LDAP or SMTP credentials by changing that server's hostname to one that they control, and then capturing the credentials that are sent there. This occurs because stored credentials are not automatically deleted upon that type of hostname change.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.009 (55.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-17944?: CVE-2018-17944 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Lexmark Cx725h, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2019-03-12.
How severe is CVE-2018-17944?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.