CVE-2008-2940
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
The alert-mailing implementation in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 1.6.7 allows local users to gain privileges and send e-mail messages from the root account via vectors related to the setalerts message, and lack of validation of the device URI associated with an event message.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (38th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2932)
- Published
- August 14, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2932 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31470
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31499
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32316
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32792
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020684
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:169
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0818.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30683
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-674-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-674-2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455235
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44441
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10136
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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