MILLIONS OF BROTHER PRINTERS HIT BY CRITICAL, UNPATCHABLE BUG

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Rapid7 discovered eight vulnerabilities that affect 748 printer models from five vendors, with Brother accounting for 689 affected devices. The critical flaw CVE-2024-51978 (CVSS 9.8), which allows attackers to generate default admin passwords using device serial numbers, cannot be firmware-patched.