CVE-2014-2856

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

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.

Affected products

cups: through 1.7.1; 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5 (+104)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0193.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1388.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/57880
http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/relnotes.html
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4356
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:108
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/14/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/15/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66788
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2172-1
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0193.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1388.html

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