CVE Alert: CVE-2024-47850
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2024-47850
CUPS cups-browsed before 2.5b1 will send an HTTP POST request to an arbitrary destination and port in response to a single IPP UDP packet requesting a printer to be added, a different vulnerability than CVE-2024-47176. (The request is meant to probe the new printer but can be used to create DDoS amplification attacks.)
Affected Endpoints:
- POST request
Published Date:
10/4/2024, 5:15:11 AM
🔥 CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedEPS Score: 0.00043 | Ranking EPS: 0.09629
References:
- https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups
- https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/october-cups-ddos-threat
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
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