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MiracleLinux 7 : cups-1.6.3-43.el7 (AXSA:2020-4559:02)

high Nessus Plugin ID 294483

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2020-4559:02 advisory.

 * cups: Local privilege escalation to root due to insecure environment variable handling (CVE-2018-4180)
 * cups: Manipulation of cupsd.conf by a local attacker resulting in limited reads of arbitrary files as root (CVE-2018-4181)
 * cups: Predictable session cookie breaks CSRF protection (CVE-2018-4700)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux 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

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/11019

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 294483

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2020-4559.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/20/2026

Updated: 1/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-4181

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-4180

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:cups-devel, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:cups, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:cups-lpd, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:cups-client, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:cups-filesystem

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/2/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-4180, CVE-2018-4181