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CVE-2024-47850

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-10-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

CUPS cups-browsed before 2.5b1 will send an HTTP POST request to an arbitrary destination and port in response to a single IPP UDP packet requesting a printer to be added, a different vulnerability than CVE-2024-47176. (The request is meant to probe the new printer but can be used to create DDoS amplification attacks.)

Affected products

• cups: from 1.0 before 2.5b1 — fixed in 2.5b1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: cups 2.5b1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups
• https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/security/advisories/GHSA-rq86-c7g6-r2h8
• https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/october-cups-ddos-threat
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/10/04/1
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241011-0002/

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