National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-4786

Overview

A certain ActiveX control in HPTicketMgr.dll in HP Easy Printer Care Software 2.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to download an arbitrary program onto a client machine, and execute this program, via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-2404 and CVE-2011-4787.

Description

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-12-013/ "The specific flaw exists within the XMLCacheMgr class ActiveX control (CLSID 6F255F99-6961-48DC-B17E-6E1BCCBC0EE3). The CacheDocumentXMLWithId() method is vulnerable to directory traversal and arbitrary write, which allows an attacker to write malicious content to the filesystem. A remote attacker could leverage this vulnerability to gain code execution under the context of the web browser."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: HP

Name: HPSBPI02698

Hyperlink:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-01/0078.html

External Source: HP

Name: SSRT100404

Hyperlink:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-01/0078.html