# CVE-2024-51984: Information disclosure in ADS-1700W

> Authenticated attackers can disclose external service passwords by reconfiguring multifunction printers to use attacker-controlled services.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 25 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 7 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fm35-4249-m22r

## What is CVE-2024-51984?

CVE-2024-51984 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Brother Industries, Ltd ADS-1700W, published on 25 Jun 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

An authenticated attacker can reconfigure the target device to use an external service (such as LDAP or FTP) controlled by the attacker. If an existing password is present for an external service, the attacker can force the target device to authenticate to an attacker controlled device using the existing credentials for that external service. In the case of an external LDAP or FTP service, this will disclose the plaintext password for that external service to the attacker.

Weakness: CWE-522 (Insufficiently Protected Credentials)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-51984?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-51984?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-51984 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-51984 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-51984 exists.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-51984 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-51984 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Brother Industries, Ltd ADS-1700W, published on 25 Jun 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-51984 exists.

Affected product: Brother Industries, Ltd ADS-1700W. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-51984/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-51984/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-51984
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-51984
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-51984

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-51984/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.