Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-2432

Title: Apple Cups Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-2432.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Jun 22, 2010

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.91%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-2432: The cupsDoAuthentication function in auth.c in the client in CUPS before 1.4.4, when HAVE_GSSAPI is omitted, does not properly handle a demand for authorization, which allows remote CUPS servers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED responses.

Impacted Vendors

easy_software_products 1

apple 1

Reference Links

http://cups.org/articles.php?L596 http://cups.org/str.php?L3518 http://secunia.com/advisories/43521 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:146 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535 http://cups.org/articles.php?L596 http://cups.org/str.php?L3518 http://secunia.com/advisories/43521 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:146 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-2432 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 22, 2010 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.