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CVE-2014-2856
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in scheduler/client.c in Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) before 1.7.2 allows remote attackers…
Medium4.3EPSS 1.6%
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- mitre
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in scheduler/client.c in Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) before 1.7.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the URL path, related to the is_path_absolute function.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (10)
- 57880 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 66788 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-2172-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20140414 CVE request: cross-site scripting issue fixed in CUPS 1.7.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1388 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0193.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/relnotes.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4356 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20140415 Re: CVE request: cross-site scripting issue fixed in CUPS 1.7.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- MDVSA-2015:108 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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