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cups — security advisory
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.
- Products
- cups
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.2.10-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-4300
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 01:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-4300
cups
Fixed versions: 2.2.10-1
cups
Fixed versions: 2.2.10-1
cups
Fixed versions: 2.2.10-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T18:04:47.716744239Z",
"provider": "osv",
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 423796,
"published_at": "2019-04-03T18:29:06.017+00:00"
}