PT-2015-1420 · Apple+5 · Cups+5

Published 2015-06-09 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-1159

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions CUPS versions prior to 2.0.3

Description The issue is related to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the template engine of the CUPS printing server. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the QUERY parameter to various web pages, including help, classes, printers, and jobs. The estimated number of potentially affected devices worldwide is not specified. There is no information provided about real-world incidents where this issue was exploited.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.0.3, update to version 2.0.3 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the vulnerable QUERY parameter in the affected API endpoints until a patch is available. Avoid using the QUERY parameter in the affected web pages until the issue is resolved.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-2012

BDU:2015-10516

CESA-2015_1123

CVE-2015-1159

DLA-239-1

DSA-3283-1

MGASA-2015-0247

OPENSUSE-SU-2015_1056-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10075-1

RHSA-2015:1123

RHSA-2015_1123

SUSE-SU-2015:1041-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1044-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1044-2

USN-2629-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Cups

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 94

• 🔥 https://github.com/p1ckzi/CVE-2012-5519 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=455 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1159 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9679 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0247.html · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2629-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1158 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1159 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1159 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-10516 · Security Note
• http://cups.org/blog.php?L1082 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2015:1041-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-07 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1159 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1159 · Vendor Advisory