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RHEL 8 : cups (RHSA-2025:0083)

high Nessus Plugin ID 213617

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for cups.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:0083 advisory.

 The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems.

 Security Fix(es):

 * cups: libppd: remote command injection via attacker controlled data in PPD file (CVE-2024-47175)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL cups package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:0083.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a3a489b6

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0083

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2024-002

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2314256

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 213617

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-0083.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/9/2025

Updated: 1/16/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.1

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-47175

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-ipptool, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-lpd, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-client, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/26/2024

Exploitable With

Metasploit (CUPS IPP Attributes LAN Remote Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-47175

CWE: 77

RHSA: 2025:0083