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Amazon Linux 2023 : cups, cups-client, cups-devel (ALAS2023-2025-1320)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 282397

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2023 host is missing a security update.

Description

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-1320 advisory.

 A client that connects to cupsd but sends slow messages, e.g. only one byte per second, delays cupsd as a whole, such that it becomes unusable by other clients. (CVE-2025-58436)

 A user in the lpadmin group can use the cups web ui to change the config and insert a malicious line.Then the cupsd process which runs as root will parse the new config and cause an out-of-bound write.
 (CVE-2025-61915)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

Solution

Run 'dnf update cups --releasever 2023.10.20260105' or or 'dnf update --advisory ALAS2023-2025-1320 --releasever 2023.10.20260105' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com//AL2023/ALAS2023-2025-1320.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2025-58436.html

https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2025-61915.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 282397

File Name: al2023_ALAS2023-2025-1320.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/8/2026

Updated: 1/8/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-61915

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-printerapp, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-ipptool-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-printerapp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-ipptool, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-lpd, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2023, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-lpd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-client, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-debugsource

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/7/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-58436, CVE-2025-61915