Credential theft through administrator-only passback
Published May 19, 2025 · Updated May 20, 2025
Credential exposure in four Canon printer series allows remote authenticated users with administrator rights to steal service credentials. Canon identifies the mechanism only as passback and does not disclose the affected interface or exact operation that releases configured credentials. Exploitation requires product administrator privileges and exposes authentication information for configured SMTP or LDAP connections, without reported device-code execution or service interruption.
Summary
What happened
Credential exposure in four Canon printer series allows remote authenticated users with administrator rights to steal service credentials. Canon identifies the mechanism only as passback and does not disclose the affected interface or exact operation that releases configured credentials. Exploitation requires product administrator privileges and exposes authentication information for configured SMTP or LDAP connections, without reported device-code execution or service interruption.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-3079
- Published
- May 19, 2025
- Updated
- May 20, 2025
- Vendor
- Canon Inc.
- Product
- Satera Series
- Classifications
- CWE-522, T1555
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
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- May 19, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 20, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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