It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-660 advisory.

    OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In     versions 2.4.8 and earlier, when starting the cupsd server with a Listen configuration item pointing to a     symbolic link, the cupsd process can be caused to perform an arbitrary chmod of the provided argument,     providing world-writable access to the target. Given that cupsd is often running as root, this can result     in the change of permission of any user or system files to be world writable. Given the aforementioned     Ubuntu AppArmor context, on such systems this vulnerability is limited to those files modifiable by the     cupsd process. In that specific case it was found to be possible to turn the configuration of the Listen     argument into full control over the cupsd.conf and cups-files.conf configuration files. By later setting     the User and Group arguments in cups-files.conf, and printing with a printer configured by PPD with a     `FoomaticRIPCommandLine` argument, arbitrary user and group (not root) command execution could be     achieved, which can further be used on Ubuntu systems to achieve full root command execution. Commit     ff1f8a623e090dee8a8aadf12a6a4b25efac143d contains a patch for the issue. (CVE-2024-35235)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Amazon Linux 2023 : cups, cups-client, cups-devel (ALAS2023-2024-660)

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Version 1.2 Dec 12, 2024, 9:55 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202412120955
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