CVE-2004-2154
CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · CWE-178
9.8CVSS CRITICAL
Summary
CUPS before 1.1.21rc1 treats a Location directive in cupsd.conf as case sensitive, which allows attackers to bypass intended ACLs via a printer name containing uppercase or lowercase letters that are different from what is specified in the directive.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L700 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.cups.org/str.php?L700Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162405Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-571.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-185-1Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163274
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9940