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.

EPSS: 0.071 (93.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

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.