USN-3577-1

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    USN-3577-1

    Published: 21 Feb 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: cups vulnerability

    Details: Jann Horn discovered that CUPS permitted HTTP requests with the Host header set to "localhost.localdomain" from the loopback interface. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in their web browser, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information or control printers, via a DNS rebinding attack. (CVE-2017-18190)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3577-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-18190

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: cups

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.7.2-0ubuntu1.9

    Affected versions

    1.7.0~rc1-0ubuntu5
    1.7.0-0ubuntu2
    1.7.0-0ubuntu3
    1.7.0-1
    1.7.0-2
    1.7.1-1
    1.7.1-2
    1.7.1-2git1
    1.7.1-3
    1.7.1-4
    1.7.1-4ubuntu1
    1.7.1-5ubuntu1
    1.7.1-5ubuntu3
    1.7.1-5ubuntu4
    1.7.1-5ubuntu5
    1.7.1-5ubuntu6
    1.7.1-5ubuntu7
    1.7.1-5ubuntu8
    1.7.1-5ubuntu9
    1.7.1-5ubuntu10
    1.7.2-0ubuntu1
    1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1
    1.7.2-0ubuntu1.2
    1.7.2-0ubuntu1.4
    1.7.2-0ubuntu1.5
    1.7.2-0ubuntu1.6
    1.7.2-0ubuntu1.7
    1.7.2-0ubuntu1.8

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High