VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-1748

medium
Published 2010-06-17 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

The cgi_initialize_string function in cgi-bin/var.c in the web interface in CUPS before 1.4.4, as used on Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8, Mac OS X 10.6 before 10.6.4, and other platforms, does not properly handle parameter values containing a % (percent) character without two subsequent hex characters, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information from cupsd process memory via a crafted request, as demonstrated by the (1) /admin?OP=redirect&URL=% and (2) /admin?URL=/admin/&OP=% URIs.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-34152 remote linux verified
Luca Carettoni · 2010-06-15

CUPS 1.4.2 - Web Interface Information Disclosure

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.4.4-1
sid Fixed 1.4.4-1
forky Fixed 1.4.4-1
bullseye Fixed 1.4.4-1
bookworm Fixed 1.4.4-1
macos macOS Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
10.6.3 Not affected —
10.6.2 Not affected —
10.6.1 Not affected —
10.6.0 Not affected —
10.5.8 Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
macos applecups{"endIncluding":"1.4.3"}
macos applecups1.1
macos applecups1.1.1
macos applecups1.1.2
macos applecups1.1.3
macos applecups1.1.4
macos applecups1.1.5
macos applecups1.1.5-1
macos applecups1.1.5-2
macos applecups1.1.6
macos applecups1.1.6-1
macos applecups1.1.6-2
macos applecups1.1.6-3
macos applecups1.1.7
macos applecups1.1.8
macos applecups1.1.9
macos applecups1.1.9-1
macos applecups1.1.10
macos applecups1.1.10-1
macos applecups1.1.11
macos applecups1.1.12
macos applecups1.1.13
macos applecups1.1.14
macos applecups1.1.15
macos applecups1.1.16
macos applecups1.1.17
macos applecups1.1.18
macos applecups1.1.19
macos applecups1.1.20
macos applecups1.1.21
macos applecups1.1.22
macos applecups1.1.23
macos applecups1.2
macos applecups1.2.0
macos applecups1.2.1
macos applecups1.2.2
macos applecups1.2.3
macos applecups1.2.4
macos applecups1.2.5
macos applecups1.2.6
macos applecups1.2.7
macos applecups1.2.8
macos applecups1.2.9
macos applecups1.2.10
macos applecups1.2.11
macos applecups1.2.12
macos applecups1.3
macos applecups1.3.0
macos applecups1.3.1
macos applecups1.3.2
macos applecups1.3.3
macos applecups1.3.4
macos applecups1.3.5
macos applecups1.3.6
macos applecups1.3.7
macos applecups1.3.8
macos applecups1.3.9
macos applecups1.3.10
macos applecups1.3.11
macos applecups1.4.0
macos applecups1.4.1
macos applecups1.4.2

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.