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2024-10-03 13:10
While the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) vulnerabilities recently disclosed by researcher Simone “evilsocket” Margaritelli are not easily exploited for remote command execution on vulnerable systems, they could offer more opportunity to attackers who engage in DDoS attacks, Akamai threat researchers have discovered. Potential for RCE CUPS is an open-source printing system based on the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). While present on many Linux, BSD and other systems, CUPS is not enabled by default on … More → The post CUPS vulnerabilities could be abused for DDoS attacks appeared first on Help Net Security.
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