Vulnerability in Brother Industries, Ltd Ads-2400n
CVE-2024-51982
An unauthenticated attacker who can connect to TCP port 9100 can issue a Printer Job Language (PJL) command that will crash the target device. The device will reboot, after which the attacker can reissue the command to repeatedly crash the device. A malformed PJL variable FORMLINES is set to a non number value causing the target to crash.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.107 (95.7th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 95.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.087 · newest: 0.107 · change: +0.020
Affected products
- Brother Industries, Ltd Ads-2400n — versions A
- Brother Industries, Ltd Ads-2800w — versions A
- Brother Industries, Ltd Ads-3000n — versions A
- Brother Industries, Ltd Ads-3600w — versions A
- Brother Industries, Ltd Dcp-7090dw — versions 0
- Brother Industries, Ltd Dcp-7190dn — versions 0
- Brother Industries, Ltd Dcp-7190dw — versions 0
- Brother Industries, Ltd Dcp-7195dw — versions 0
- Brother Industries, Ltd Dcp-9030cdn — versions 0
- Brother Industries, Ltd Dcp-B7520dw — versions 0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- support.brother.com/g/b/link.aspx (vendor-advisory)
- www.fujifilm.com/fbglobal/eng/company/news/notice/2025/0625_announce.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.ricoh.com/products/security/vulnerabilities/vul (vendor-advisory)
- www.rapid7.com/blog/post/multiple-brother-devices-multiple-vulnerabilities-fixed (third-party-advisory)
- assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blte4f029e766e6b253/blt6495b3c6adf2867f/685aa9… (technical-description)
- github.com/sfewer-r7/BrotherVulnerabilities (exploit)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2024-51982?
- CVE-2024-51982 is a high-severity vulnerability in Brother Industries, Ltd Ads-2400n, classified under CWE-1286. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2025-06-25.
- How severe is CVE-2024-51982?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2024-51982 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.