Access Restriction Bypass Affecting apple/cups package, versions [,10.5.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.4% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-APPLECUPS-2364769
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Jun 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Jun 2008

CVE-2008-1033  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade apple/cups to version 10.5.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The scheduler in CUPS in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.3, when debug logging is enabled and a printer requires a password, allows attackers to obtain sensitive information (credentials) by reading the log data, related to "authentication environment variables."

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