In-Reply-To: <3E63BA9C.3000303 (at) satx.rr (dot) com [email concealed]>

Hello Geoff,

Thank you for your reply.

Some reactions on your statements:

1. I've tested the SNMP 'set community name'. None responded

to 'internal' after I changed it to something else.

You are right when you mean the SNMP 'GET community name', that one can't

be changed.

2. I'm not suggesting to keep the Web Server (EWS) password empty, only

the 'Web Jetadmin (WJA) device password'.

But you are right with the newer JetDirect cards (610N and higher). In

those cards the 'Web Jetadmin device password' is equal to the EWS

password (and also equal to the telnet password).

In the 'older' JetDirect cards (600N and older), the 'WJA device password'

has nothing to do with the EWS password (they can even be different). The

WJA device password is just stored in a reserved place in the devices'

NVRAM and can only be used by the WJA.

I have tested your suggesting by disabling the EWS (ews-config:0). The

EWS shows now the message '404 not found'. But when I place a device

password using WJA, the password is again readable in ASCII text using

SNMP. So it won't help.

And you are right about the raw ascii string; I made a typo in that one.

Regards,

University of Technology Eindhoven

Faculty of Technology Management

Sven Pechler

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>Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 14:27:08 -0600

>From: "snooper (at) satx.rr (dot) com [email concealed]" <snooper (at) satx.rr (dot) com [email concealed]>

>To: Sven Pechler <helpdesk (at) tm.tue (dot) nl [email concealed]>, bugtraq (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]

>Subject: RE: New HP Jetdirect SNMP password vulnerability when using Web

JetAdmin

>

>Sven,

>

>I have been doing some research on the same issue, and it appears that

>some of the new firmware versions from HP actually fix this

>vulnerability by replacing the web server with a newer version that

>doesn't rely on client-side java to verify the password.

[..snip..]

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