CVE-2014-4338

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-06-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

cups-browsed in cups-filters before 1.0.53 allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging a malformed cups-browsed.conf BrowseAllow directive that is interpreted as granting browse access to all IP addresses.

Affected products

Linuxfoundation Cups-Filters: through 1.0.52

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/25/7
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/19/12
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1795.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62044
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68124
https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/25/7
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/19/12
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1795.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62044
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68124
https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204

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