CVE-2017-7588
On certain Brother devices, authorization is mishandled by including a valid AuthCookie cookie in the HTTP response to a failed login attempt.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 33.6%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
On certain Brother devices, authorization is mishandled by including a valid AuthCookie cookie in the HTTP response to a failed login attempt. Affected models are: MFC-J6973CDW MFC-J4420DW MFC-8710DW MFC-J4620DW MFC-L8850CDW MFC-J3720 MFC-J6520DW MFC-L2740DW MFC-J5910DW MFC-J6920DW MFC-L2700DW MFC-9130CW MFC-9330CDW MFC-9340CDW MFC-J5620DW MFC-J6720DW MFC-L8600CDW MFC-L9550CDW MFC-L2720DW DCP-L2540DW DCP-L2520DW HL-3140CW HL-3170CDW HL-3180CDW HL-L8350CDW HL-L2380DW ADS-2500W ADS-1000W ADS-1500W.
- CVSS 3.0
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 33.58% probability · 98th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 11 April 2017
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-287
- Affected
- brother/mfc firmware · brother/dcp firmware · brother/ads firmware · brother/hl firmware
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS moved from 24.0% on 21 September 2026 to 33.6% on 27 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
Public exploits (1)
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References
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.