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Fencer Vulns
high 7.2

CVE-2008-2940 json

The alert-mailing implementation in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 1.6.7 allows local users to gain privileges and send e-mail messa…

published 2008-08-14 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-2932

cvss
7.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • hplip Debian 13, Debian 12 2.8.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2940

  • hplip RHEL 5 1.6.7-4.1.el5_2.4
  • hpijs RHEL 5 1:1.6.7-4.1.el5_2.4
  • libsane-hpaio RHEL 5 1.6.7-4.1.el5_2.4

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0818

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-2940 updated

hpssd of hplip allows unprivileged user to trigger alert mail

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) hpijs 1.6.7-4.1.el5_2.4, hplip 1.6.7-4.1.el5_2.4, libsane-hpaio 1.6.7-4.1.el5_2.4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) hpijs 1.6.7-4.1.el5_2.4, hplip 1.6.7-4.1.el5_2.4, libsane-hpaio 1.6.7-4.1.el5_2.4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0818

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.