CVE-2010-2432

high

Description

The cupsDoAuthentication function in auth.c in the client in CUPS before 1.4.4, when HAVE_GSSAPI is omitted, does not properly handle a demand for authorization, which allows remote CUPS servers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED responses.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2010-2441

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:146

http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/43521

http://cups.org/str.php?L3518

http://cups.org/articles.php?L596

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-06-22

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00829