This vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass the credentials brute-force prevention mechanism of the Embedded Web Server (interface) of more than 60 Lexmark printer models. This issue affects both username-password and PIN authentication.# PoC for CVE-2023-22960
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## Details
PoC for CVE-2023-22960 that I discovered. This vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass the credentials brute-force prevention mechanism of the Embedded Web Server interface of all Lexmark printer models that have a firmware version released before 01/2023. This issue affects both username-password and PIN authentication.
**Official security advisory** -> https://publications.lexmark.com/publications/security-alerts/CVE-2023-22960.pdf
**PoC tested against**:
- Lexmark MX622adhe
- Lexmark CX735adse
- Lexmark MX521ade
#### Video Presentation
In this video I demonstrate the issue as well as how to write an http(s) login bruteforce script with Python.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuAqTScr_3s
## Preview
Without the brute-force prevention bypass:

Applying the brute-force prevention bypass:

[4.0K] /data/pocs/4f8d3df2eec4673bb1983614b8715198c0eb714d
├── [3.6K] lexmark-brute-force-login.py
├── [3.1K] lexmark-brute-force-pins.py
├── [1.1K] LICENSE
└── [1.4K] README.md
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