Lots of garbage printed, certain Ricoh printer maybe not detected by Greenbone?

Hello,

our organization has a RICOH Pro C7200SX printer, and I’m strongly suspecting Greenbone caused it to print lots of garbage pages today.

I suspect that the printer isn’t recognized by Greenbone?

Expected/desired result: the printer should be recognized by Greenbone and should be ignored.

My question is: can you look at whether Greenbone is lacking detection for this specific printer? If so, hopefully the information below helps you implement the proper detection.

Thanks in advance.

Details:

It printed about 20-50 pages with mostly binary garbage (usually just a few lines), and one page contained a simple HTTP GET request (it was only 3-5 lines, not very informative).

We are using the ‘Full and fast’ scan config, and the ‘Exclude printers from scan’ option is set to ‘Yes’.

We haven’t had this before, so I’m guessing it may be due to something that has recently been introduced via the feed updates?

In case it’s relevant, these are our current feed dates:
20210908 - Greenbone Community Feed
20210903 - Greenbone Community SCAP Feed
20210903 - Greenbone Community CERT Feed
20210809 - Greenbone Community gvmd Data Feed

Package versions:
greenbone-security-assistant-21.4.0-18437.el8.art.x86_64
gvm-21.4.0-18451.el8.art.noarch
gvmd-21.4.0-18444.el8.art.x86_64

Here’s the output of various protocols, to help you detect the printer in Greenbone:

Telnet:

(no output, not running)

SNMP:

snmpwalk -v 2c -c public $ipofprinter

A link to the SNMP output: https://pastebin.com/nvduX1cJ

FTP:

nc -vvv $ipofprinter 21

Ncat: Version 7.70 ( https://nmap.org/ncat )
NCAT DEBUG: Using system default trusted CA certificates and those in /usr/share/ncat/ca-bundle.crt.
NCAT DEBUG: Unable to load trusted CA certificates from /usr/share/ncat/ca-bundle.crt: error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory
libnsock nsock_iod_new2(): nsock_iod_new (IOD #1)
libnsock nsock_connect_tcp(): TCP connection requested to _removed_:21 (IOD #1) EID 8
libnsock nsock_trace_handler_callback(): Callback: CONNECT SUCCESS for EID 8 [_removed_:21]
Ncat: Connected to _removed_:21.
libnsock nsock_iod_new2(): nsock_iod_new (IOD #2)
libnsock nsock_read(): Read request from IOD #1 [_removed_:21] (timeout: -1ms) EID 18
libnsock nsock_readbytes(): Read request for 0 bytes from IOD #2 [peer unspecified] EID 26
libnsock nsock_trace_handler_callback(): Callback: READ SUCCESS for EID 18 [_removed_:21] (33 bytes): 220 EFI FTP Print server ready...
220 EFI FTP Print server ready.
libnsock nsock_readbytes(): Read request for 0 bytes from IOD #1 [_removed_:21] EID 34

Note this line: 220 EFI FTP Print server ready.

HTTP:

wget http://$ipofprinter

Index page / :

<HTML>
<script language="JavaScript" src="readCookie.js">
</script>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;URL=wt4/home">
</HTML>

…which redirects to:

wget http://$ipofprinter/wt4/home

See the next forum posts for the HTTP output, since I can’t upload attachments yet as a new user.

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Output of wget http://$ipofprinter

<HTML>
<script language="JavaScript" src="readCookie.js">
</script>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;URL=wt4/home">
</HTML>

Output of wget http://$ipofprinter/wt4/home

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>WebTools</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0"/>
    <meta name="description" content="" />
    <meta name="author" content="" />
    <link href="/wt4/configure/assets/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon"/>        
    <link href="/wt4/configure/assets/new_design.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />    
    <link href="/wt4/configure/assets/pace.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <script src="/wt4/configure/assets/pace.js" type="text/javascript"></script>   
    <script src="/wt4/configure/assets/browser-detection.js" type="text/javascript"></script> 
            <link href="/wt4/configure/assets/dev.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="/wt4/configure/assets/common.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

    
    
    <meta content="authenticity_token" name="csrf-param" />
<meta content="mCuswjvhYTAq/CwK4DspnNezbo2cGVfijtCOmBUO5e4=" name="csrf-token" />  	 
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                                <span class="label-copies">Size:</span>
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                                <span class="pages-per-job" id="printCopies">0 of 1</span>
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                                <div class="image-container" style="background-image:url(/images/img_printer.gif);"></div>
                                
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Hi there,

Yes, if you haven’t seen a proper detection over “RICOH Printer Detection Consolidation” (OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.142807) the missing detection is most likely the problem.

Thanks a lot for your analysis and further output! This is really great! We will have a look at it and come back to you about any improvements done or if we need some further info.

Chris

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We did some additions/improvements for Ricoh printer and EFI Fiery based on your input (thanks again!). These changes should arrive in one of the next feed updates.

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Thanks for the rapid response and for looking at this!
I’m glad I could be of help.

The scan indeed lacked a result for the detection you mentioned.

Good to hear that improvements are coming for everyone, awesome! :smile:

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Hi there and welcome to the community!

Could you give us some details of your printer as done by above? Like this we can improve the detection for Sharp printers.

Best regards,
Chris

Thanks! Further investigation revealed that the device’s SNMP service was in “read-write” mode. I suspect that was the issue. For the present I’ve switched SNMP to read-only and modified my scan target to exclude the printer’s IP.

So likely more a misconfiguration on the printer than a problem with GSM but I’ll post back if my mitigation efforts fail.