CVE-2024-47850

Published: Oct 4, 2024Modified: Nov 21, 2024

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

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.)

Related CWEs

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

References (5)

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/security/advisories/GHSA-rq86-c7g6-r2h8

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/october-cups-ddos-threat

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/10/04/1

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241011-0002/

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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