CVE-2014-2856

cups: cross-site scripting flaw fixed in the 1.7.2 release

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · January 30, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the CUPS web interface. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a cross-site scripting attack against users of the CUPS web interface.

Statement

This issue is not planned to be fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as it is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle, https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')