Posted by Jens Müller on Jan 30

TL;DR: In the scope of academic research on printer security, various
vulnerabilities in network printers and MFPs have been discovered. This
is advisory 5 of 6 of the `Hacking Printers’ series. Each advisory
discusses multiple issues of the same category. This post is about
resetting a printer to factory defaults through ordinary print jobs,
therefore bypassing all protection mechanisms like user-set passwords.
The attack can be performed…