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ubuntu-cve-2024-35235

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2024-06-11 14:00

Modified

2026-04-22 07:48

Summary

Details

OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.8 and earlier, when starting the cupsd server with a Listen configuration item pointing to a symbolic link, the cupsd process can be caused to perform an arbitrary chmod of the provided argument, providing world-writable access to the target. Given that cupsd is often running as root, this can result in the change of permission of any user or system files to be world writable. Given the aforementioned Ubuntu AppArmor context, on such systems this vulnerability is limited to those files modifiable by the cupsd process. In that specific case it was found to be possible to turn the configuration of the Listen argument into full control over the cupsd.conf and cups-files.conf configuration files. By later setting the User and Group arguments in cups-files.conf, and printing with a printer configured by PPD with a FoomaticRIPCommandLine argument, arbitrary user and group (not root) command execution could be achieved, which can further be used on Ubuntu systems to achieve full root command execution. Commit ff1f8a623e090dee8a8aadf12a6a4b25efac143d contains a patch for the issue.

Severity

4.4 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

6.7 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-35235	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-35235	REPORT
	https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/security/adv…	REPORT
	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6844-1	ADVISORY

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CVE-2024-35235 (GCVE-0-2024-35235)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-11 14:13 – Updated: 2025-02-21 16:56

Title

Cupsd Listen arbitrary chmod 0140777

Summary

OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.8 and earlier, when starting the cupsd server with a Listen configuration item pointing to a symbolic link, the cupsd process can be caused to perform an arbitrary chmod of the provided argument, providing world-writable access to the target. Given that cupsd is often running as root, this can result in the change of permission of any user or system files to be world writable. Given the aforementioned Ubuntu AppArmor context, on such systems this vulnerability is limited to those files modifiable by the cupsd process. In that specific case it was found to be possible to turn the configuration of the Listen argument into full control over the cupsd.conf and cups-files.conf configuration files. By later setting the User and Group arguments in cups-files.conf, and printing with a printer configured by PPD with a `FoomaticRIPCommandLine` argument, arbitrary user and group (not root) command execution could be achieved, which can further be used on Ubuntu systems to achieve full root command execution. Commit ff1f8a623e090dee8a8aadf12a6a4b25efac143d contains a patch for the issue.

Severity

4.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-06-11 17:02 UTC

CWE

CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
CWE-252 - Unchecked Return Value

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

9 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/security/adv…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/commit/ff1f8…	x_refsource_MISC
https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/blob/aba9170…	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/11/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/12/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/12/5
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024…
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/08/3

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
OpenPrinting	cups	Affected: <= 2.4.8
openprinting	cups	Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.4.8 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:openprinting:cups::::::::

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usn-6844-1

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2024-06-24 10:11

Modified

2026-06-25 10:46

Summary

cups vulnerability

Details

Rory McNamara discovered that when starting the cupsd server with a Listen configuration item, the cupsd process fails to validate if bind call passed. An attacker could possibly trick cupsd to perform an arbitrary chmod of the provided argument, providing world-writable access to the target.

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6844-1	ADVISORY
	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-35235	REPORT

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                  "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:24.04:LTS"
        }
      },
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "cups",
            "binary_version": "2.4.7-1.2ubuntu7.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "cups-bsd",
            "binary_version": "2.4.7-1.2ubuntu7.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "cups-client",
            "binary_version": "2.4.7-1.2ubuntu7.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "cups-common",
            "binary_version": "2.4.7-1.2ubuntu7.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "cups-core-drivers",
            "binary_version": "2.4.7-1.2ubuntu7.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "cups-daemon",
            "binary_version": "2.4.7-1.2ubuntu7.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "cups-ipp-utils",
            "binary_version": "2.4.7-1.2ubuntu7.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "cups-ppdc",
            "binary_version": "2.4.7-1.2ubuntu7.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "cups-server-common",
            "binary_version": "2.4.7-1.2ubuntu7.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libcups2t64",
            "binary_version": "2.4.7-1.2ubuntu7.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libcupsimage2t64",
            "binary_version": "2.4.7-1.2ubuntu7.1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:24.04:LTS",
        "name": "cups",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/cups@2.4.7-1.2ubuntu7.1?arch=source\u0026distro=noble"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.4.7-1.2ubuntu7.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2.4.6-0ubuntu3",
        "2.4.7-1.2ubuntu2",
        "2.4.7-1.2ubuntu3",
        "2.4.7-1.2ubuntu7"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Rory McNamara discovered that when starting the cupsd server with a\nListen configuration item, the cupsd process fails to validate if\nbind call passed. An attacker could possibly trick cupsd to perform\nan arbitrary chmod of the provided argument, providing world-writable\naccess to the target.\n",
  "id": "USN-6844-1",
  "modified": "2026-06-25T10:46:24Z",
  "published": "2024-06-24T10:11:08Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6844-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-35235"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "cups vulnerability",
  "upstream": [
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2024-35235"
  ]
}

Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

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Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.

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ubuntu-cve-2024-35235

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2024-35235 (GCVE-0-2024-35235)

usn-6844-1

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Tags

Sightings

Nomenclature