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Medium ALAS2023-2025-1205 2 CVEs

Moderate: cups security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Sep 22, 2025 · Updated Sep 29, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-58364: OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.12 and earlier, an unsafe deserialization and validation of printer attributes causes null dereference in the libcups library. This is a remote DoS vulnerability available in local subnet in default configurations. It can cause the cups & cups-browsed to crash, on all the machines in local network who are listening for printers (so by default for all regular linux machines). On systems where the vulnerability CVE-2024-47176 (cups-filters 1.x/cups-browsed 2.x vulnerability) was not fixed, and the firewall on the machine does not reject incoming communication to IPP port, and the machine is set to be available to public internet, attack vector "Network" is possible. The current versions of CUPS and cups-browsed projects have the attack vector "Adjacent" in their default configurations. Version 2.4.13 contains a patch for CVE-2025-58364. CVE-2025-58060: A flaw was found in CUPS, a widely used printing service on Linux and UNIX-like systems. The issue arises when authentication is configured to use a method other than Basic, but the attacker sends an HTTP request with a Basic authentication header. Due to improper validation in the cupsdAuthorize() function, the password is not checked. This vulnerability allows attackers to bypass authentication entirely, resulting in unauthorized access to administrative functions and system configuration.

Fixed packages 15

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-client 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-client-debuginfo 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-debuginfo 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-debugsource 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-devel 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-filesystem 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-ipptool 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-ipptool-debuginfo 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-libs 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-libs-debuginfo 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-lpd 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-lpd-debuginfo 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-printerapp 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-printerapp-debuginfo 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.1

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 8.0
    CVE-2025-58060 Public exploit

    cups has Authentication bypass with AuthType Negotiate

    OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.12 and earlier, when the `AuthType` is set to anything but `Basic`, if the request contains an `Authorization: Basic ...` header, the password…

  • Medium 6.5

    cups: Remote DoS via null dereference

    OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.12 and earlier, an unsafe deserialization and validation of printer attributes causes null dereference in the libcups library. This is a remot…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-58060.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-58364.html