Bug 1227252 (CVE-2015-0839) - CVE-2015-0839 hplip: hp-plugin verified binary download with short key ID
Summary: CVE-2015-0839 hplip: hp-plugin verified binary download with short key ID
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2015-0839
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1227253
Blocks: 1227254
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Reported: 2015-06-02 09:07 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2021-06-11 21:04 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-06-11 21:04:09 UTC
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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
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