CVE-2014-2856
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in scheduler/client.c in Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) before 1.7.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the URL path,
02 Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in scheduler/client.c in Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) before 1.7.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the URL path,
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.62% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 75.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2014-04-18 14:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 10:28Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-04-15
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- ca1c1a202a8ef6e6c4a92bc82303a618f2990e40c60e21600b647cbd742a5944
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com57880http://secunia.com/advisories/57880
- www.securityfocus.com66788http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66788
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2172-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2172-1
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20140414 CVE request: cross-site scripting issue fixed in CUPS 1.7.2http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/14/2
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2014:1388http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1388.html
- advisories.mageia.orghttp://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0193.html
- www.cups.orghttp://www.cups.org/documentation.php/relnotes.html
- www.cups.orghttp://www.cups.org/str.php?L4356
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20140415 Re: CVE request: cross-site scripting issue fixed in CUPS 1.7.2http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/15/3
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2015:108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:108
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- cups Fixed in 1.7.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- cups Fixed in 1.7.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- cups Fixed in 1.7.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- cups Fixed in 1.7.2-0ubuntu1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.