CVE-2015-1159

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-06-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the cgi_puts function in cgi-bin/template.c in the template engine in CUPS before 2.0.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the QUERY parameter to help/.

Affected products

cups: through 2.0.2

References

http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.in/2015/06/owning-internet-printing-case-study-in.html
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10702
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00010.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1123.html
http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L1082
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3283
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/810572
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75106
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032556
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2629-1

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