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Red Hat: CVE-2018-4300: Moderate: cups security and bug fix update (RHSA-2020:1050)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-4300: Moderate: cups security and bug fix update (RHSA-2020:1050)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/03/2019
Created
09/01/2020
Added
08/31/2020
Modified
08/31/2020

Description

The session cookie generated by the CUPS web interface was easy to guess on Linux, allowing unauthorized scripted access to the web interface when the web interface is enabled. This issue affected versions prior to v2.2.10.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-cups
  • redhat-upgrade-cups-client
  • redhat-upgrade-cups-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-cups-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-cups-filesystem
  • redhat-upgrade-cups-ipptool
  • redhat-upgrade-cups-libs
  • redhat-upgrade-cups-lpd

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