A potential vulnerability has been identified in HP Remote Graphics Software’s certificate authentication process version 7.5.0 and earlier.

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• hp remote graphics softwareup to 7.5.0 inclusive

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (hp). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• HP HP Remote Graphics Software

  • Version 7.5.0 and lower.affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2009-0721Unspecified vulnerability in Easy Login in the Sender module in HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS) 4.0.0 through 5.2.4 allows remote attacker
  43Plan
• CVE-2009-2683Unspecified vulnerability in the Sender module in HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS) 5.1.3 through 5.2.6 allows remote authenticated users to
  29Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

A certificate validation error is silently swallowed instead of terminating the connection. Often, code added for a test environment makes its way into production.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1override fun checkServerTrusted(chain: Array<X509Certificate>, type: String) {2  // Left empty for the test environment3}

1val client = OkHttpClient.Builder()2  .certificatePinner(3    CertificatePinner.Builder()4      .add("api.sirius.example", "sha256/…")5      .build()6  ).build()

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.