CVE-2008-5184

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 21, 2008
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Nov 20, 2008

Description

The web interface (cgi-bin/admin.c) in CUPS before 1.3.8 uses the guest username when a user is not logged on to the web server, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass intended policy and conduct CSRF attacks via the (1) add and (2) cancel RSS subscription functions.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

[oss-security] 20081119 CVE request: CUPS DoS via RSS subscriptionsmailing-list
http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/pwning-ubuntu-via-cups/
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2774
SUSE-SR:2008:026vendor-advisory
MDVSA-2009:028vendor-advisory

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