Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-1159

Title: Cups Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-1159.

CWE Category CWE-79
Published Date Jun 26, 2015
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
64.81%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-1159: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the cgi_puts function in cgi-bin/template.c in the template engine in CUPS before 2.0.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the QUERY parameter to help/.

Impacted Vendors

E
easy_software_products 1
C
cups 1

Reference Links

http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.in/2015/06/owning-internet-printing-case-study-in.html http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10702 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00010.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1123.html http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L1082 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3283 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/810572 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75106 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032556 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2629-1 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=924208 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221642 https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=455 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-07 https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4609 http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.in/2015/06/owning-internet-printing-case-study-in.html http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10702 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00010.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1123.html http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L1082 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3283 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/810572 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75106 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032556 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2629-1 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=924208 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221642 https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=455 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-07 https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4609
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-1159 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.