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CVSSv2

CVE-2008-5184

Published: 21/11/2008 Updated: 29/01/2009
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 890
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

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

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #506180 CVE-2008-5183: daemon crashes when adding more than 100 subscriptions Package: cups; Maintainer for cups is Debian Printing Team <debian-printing@listsdebianorg>; Source for cups is src:cups (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmailcom> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 20 ...
It was discovered that CUPS didn’t properly handle adding a large number of RSS subscriptions A local user could exploit this and cause CUPS to crash, leading to a denial of service This issue only applied to Ubuntu 710, 804 LTS and 810 (CVE-2008-5183) ...