What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-27159: Hardcoded password used to encrypt logs

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-06-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-798

Description

All the Toshiba printers contain a shell script using the same hardcoded key to encrypt logs. An attacker can decrypt the encrypted files using the hardcoded key. This vulnerability can be executed in combination with other vulnerabilities and difficult to execute alone. So, the CVSS score for this vulnerability alone is lower than the score listed in the "Base Score" of this vulnerability. For detail on related other vulnerabilities, please ask to the below contact point. https://www.toshibatec.com/contacts/products/ As for the affected products/models/versions, see the reference URL.

Affected products

• Toshiba Tec Corporation Toshiba Tec e-Studio multi-function peripheral (MFP): see the reference URL

References

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/1
• https://jvn.jp/en/vu/JVNVU97136265/index.html
• https://www.toshibatec.com/information/20240531_01.html
• https://www.toshibatec.com/information/pdf/information20240531_01.pdf
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/1
• https://jvn.jp/en/vu/JVNVU97136265/index.html
• https://www.toshibatec.com/information/20240531_01.html
• https://www.toshibatec.com/information/pdf/information20240531_01.pdf

Get alerted when CVE-2024-27159 or the next vulnerability affects your stack