On Thursday, September 26, 2024, a security researcher publicly disclosed several vulnerabilities affecting different components of OpenPrinting’s CUPS (Common Unix Printing System). CUPS is a popular IPP-based open-source printing system primarily (but not only) for Linux and UNIX-like operating systems.
According to the researcher, a successful exploit chain allows remote unauthenticated attackers to replace existing printers’ IPP URLs with malicious URLs, resulting in arbitrary command execution when a print job is started from the target device.
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Source: Rapid7
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