Medium
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
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-4300
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:31 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:CVE-2018-4300
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:32.587922984Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00028.html",
"https://github.com/apple/cups/releases/tag/v2.2.10"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 381841,
"published_at": "2019-04-03T18:29:06.017+00:00"
}