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CVE-2004-2154

CRITICAL

9.8

Description

CUPS before 1.1.21rc1 treats a Location directive in cupsd.conf as case sensitive, which allows attackers to bypass intended ACLs via a printer name containing uppercase or lowercase letters that are different from what is specified in the directive.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published12/31/2004

Last Modified4/16/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

apple:cupscanonical:ubuntu_linux

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-178CWE-178

References

http://www.cups.org/str.php?L700(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-571.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-185-1(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162405(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163274(secalert@redhat.com)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9940(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.cups.org/str.php?L700(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-571.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-185-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162405(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163274(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9940(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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