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CVE-2014-4338

cups-filters: unsupported BrowseAllow value lets cups-browsed accept from all hosts

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4

CVSS 2.0

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Published · April 25, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in the way the cups-browsed daemon interpreted the "BrowseAllow" directive in the cups-browsed.conf file. An attacker able to add a malformed "BrowseAllow" directive to the cups-browsed.conf file could use this flaw to bypass intended access restrictions.

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
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CWE not specified