CVE-2014-2856

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, related to the is_path_absolute function.

How to fix CVE-2014-2856

To remediate CVE-2014-2856, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• Debian/cups—upgrade to 1.7.2-1 or later

Is CVE-2014-2856 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 1.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (1)

• from 0, < 1.7.2-1

References (1)

• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-2856