Cups vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product109 versions
The short answer

Cups is made by Apple. We track 56 published vulnerabilities in it, across 109 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Cups, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Known exploited

Which Cups vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Cups's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Cups flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

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  1. 24%

    The Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language (HPGL) filter in CUPS before 1.3.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted pen width and pen color opcodes that overwrite arbitrary memory.

    CVSS10.0Published10 Oct 2008
  2. 20%

    The ippReadIO function in cups/ipp.c in cupsd in CUPS before 1.3.10 does not properly initialize memory for IPP request packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference...

    CVSS7.5Published9 Jun 2009
  3. 12%

    The LZW decompressor in the LWZReadByte function in giftoppm.c in the David Koblas GIF decoder in PBMPLUS, as used in the gif_read_lzw function in filter/image-gif.c in CUPS before 1.4.7, the LZWReadByte function in...

    CVSS5.1Published19 Aug 2011
  4. 9.2%

    cupsd in CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by adding a large number of RSS Subscriptions, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

    CVSS7.5Published21 Nov 2008
  5. 8.3%

    Multiple buffer overflows in the HP-GL/2-to-PostScript filter in CUPS before 1.3.6 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HP-GL/2 file.

    CVSS10.0Published18 Mar 2008
  6. 7.3%

    Multiple buffer overflows in the JBIG2 MMR decoder in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier, Poppler before 0.10.6, and other products allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file.

    CVSS7.5Published23 Apr 2009
  7. 6.4%

    ipp.c in cupsd in CUPS 1.4.4 and earlier does not properly allocate memory for attribute values with invalid string data types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and...

    CVSS9.8Published5 Nov 2010
  8. 5.5%

    Integer overflow in the JBIG2 decoder in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier, Poppler before 0.10.6, and other products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file.

    CVSS6.8Published23 Apr 2009
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We track 56 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Cups, across 109 versions.

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