Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in CUPS. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /filter/pdftoippprinter of the component Printer Discovery. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. No exploit exists. Restrictive firewalling should be applied.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in CUPS (Printing Software) (version unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the file /filter/pdftoippprinter of the component Printer Discovery. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, and integrity.

The weakness was disclosed 04/01/2014 by Sebastian Krahmer with SuSE Security Team as cups-browsed remote exploit (oss-sec). The advisory is available at openwall.com. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project. The following code is the reason for this vulnerability:

snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer),
   "#!/bin/sh\n"
   "# System V interface script for printer %s generated by cups-browsed\n"
   "\n"
   "if [ $# -lt 5 -o $# -gt 6 ]; then\n"
   "  echo \"ERROR: $0 job-id user title copies options [file]\" >&2\n"
   "  exit 1\n"
   "fi\n"
   "\n"
   "# Read from given file\n"
   "if [ -n \"$6\" ]; then\n"
   "  exec \"$0\" \"$1\" \"$2\" \"$3\" \"$4\" \"$5\" < \"$6\"\n"
   "fi\n"
   "\n"
   "extra_options=\"output-format=%s make-and-model=%s\"\n"
   "\n"
   "%s/filter/pdftoippprinter \"$1\" \"$2\" \"$3\" \"$4\" \"$5 $extra_options\"\n",
   p->name, pdl, make_model, cups_serverbin);

The advisory illustrates:

POSTs to above URL to become effective for this queue (I did not check the cups admin backend code parsing this POST though, but I assume its stored as filter for this queue).

Addressing this vulnerability is possible by firewalling . A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

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• Printing Software

Name

• CUPS

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