CVE-2014-4338
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.0
Description
cups-browsed in cups-filters before 1.0.53 allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging a malformed cups-browsed.conf BrowseAllow directive that is interpreted as granting browse access to all IP addresses.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.0.53-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.0.53-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.0.53-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.0.53-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.0.53-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| linuxfoundation | cups-filters | {"endIncluding":"1.0.52"} | |
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/25/7
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/19/12
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1795.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62044
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68124
- https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4338
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.