Bug 1087122 (CVE-2014-2856) - CVE-2014-2856 cups: cross-site scripting flaw fixed in the 1.7.2 release
Summary: CVE-2014-2856 cups: cross-site scripting flaw fixed in the 1.7.2 release
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-2856
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1087123 1117798 1118264
Blocks: 1087125 1101912
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Reported: 2014-04-14 03:23 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2021-02-17 06:41 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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.
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Last Closed: 2015-03-26 21:44:08 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1388 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: cups security and bug fix update 2014-10-14 01:21:38 UTC

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
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