Bug 1227252 (CVE-2015-0839)

Summary:	CVE-2015-0839 hplip: hp-plugin verified binary download with short key ID
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jpopelka, twaugh
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-06-02 09:07:18 UTC

It was reported that the hp-plugin utility, included in the hplip package, downloads a binary driver and verifies it via a key specified by the key's short ID:

Downloading plug-in: [\                                   ] 0% Receiving digital keys: /bin/gpg --homedir /home/test/.hplip/.gnupg --no-permission-warning --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0xA59047B9

A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to generate a key with the expected short ID and trick a user into downloading a malicious binary.

Original report:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q2/581

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-06-02 09:07:55 UTC

Created hplip tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1227253]

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-06-03 04:28:37 UTC

Statement:

This issue affects the version of hplip as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. Furthermore there is currently no upstream patch available to address this issue.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-07-29 01:44:03 UTC

hplip-3.15.7-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2015-07-30 01:10:14 UTC

hplip-3.14.10-9.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-06-11 21:04:09 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-0839