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CUPS < 2.0.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 84149

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Synopsis

The remote printer service is potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

According to its banner, the CUPS printer service running on the remote host is a version prior to 2.0.3. It is, therefore, potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - A privilege escalation vulnerability exists due to a flaw in cupsd when handling printer job request errors.
 An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, with a specially crafted request, to prematurely free an arbitrary string of global scope, creating a dangling pointer to a repurposed block of memory on the heap, resulting ACL verification to fail when parsing 'admin/conf' and 'admin' ACLs. This allows an attacker to upload a replacement CUPS configuration file.
 (CVE-2015-1158)

 - A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists due to improper sanitization of user-supplied input to the 'QUERY' parameter of the help page. This allows a remote attacker, with a specially crafted request, to execute arbitrary script code. (CVE-2015-1159)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to CUPS version 2.0.3 or later. Alternatively, apply the patch provided by the vendor.

See Also

https://cups.org/blog.php?L1082

https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/4609

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 84149

File Name: cups_2_0_3.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: remote

Family: Misc.

Published: 6/12/2015

Updated: 11/22/2019

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1158

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:apple:cups

Required KB Items: www/cups, Settings/ParanoidReport

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/23/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1158, CVE-2015-1159

BID: 75098

CERT: 810572