Bug 1087122 (CVE-2014-2856)

Summary:	CVE-2014-2856 cups: cross-site scripting flaw fixed in the 1.7.2 release
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	falonso, jkurik, jpopelka, pfrields, twaugh
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	cups 1.7.2	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the CUPS web interface. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a cross-site scripting attack against users of the CUPS web interface.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-03-26 21:44:08 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Bug Depends On:	1087123, 1117798, 1118264
Bug Blocks:	1087125, 1101912

Description Murray McAllister 2014-04-14 03:23:08 UTC

The CUPS 1.7.2 release fixes a possible cross-site scripting issue in the CUPS web interface. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a cross-site scripting attack against users of the CUPS web interface.

Patch for is_absolute_path(): http://www.cups.org/strfiles.php/3268/str4356.patch

I was unable to reproduce this issue in Fedora 19 and 20.

References:

http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L717
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4356

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-04-14 03:27:24 UTC

Created cups tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1087123]

Comment 3 Murray McAllister 2014-04-14 04:53:04 UTC

CVE request: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/14/2

Comment 4 Martin Prpič 2014-04-15 21:21:11 UTC

MITRE assigned CVE-2014-2856 to this issue:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/115

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-04-29 05:24:25 UTC

cups-1.6.4-5.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-04-30 04:08:32 UTC

cups-1.7.2-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Francisco Alonso 2014-08-11 14:47:31 UTC

Statement:

This issue is not planned to be fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as it is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle, https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

Comment 13 Martin Prpič 2014-10-07 08:07:35 UTC

IssueDescription:

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the CUPS web interface. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a cross-site scripting attack against users of the CUPS web interface.

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 07:31:34 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:1388 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1388.html

Comment 16 Tomas Hoger 2015-03-26 21:44:08 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHBA-2015:0386 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-0386.html