U.S. flag   An official website of the United States government
Dot gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Https

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (Dot gov) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-1159 Detail

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the cgi_puts function in cgi-bin/template.c in the template engine in CUPS before 2.0.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the QUERY parameter to help/.


Metrics

 
NVD enrichment efforts reference publicly available information to associate vector strings. CVSS information contributed by other sources is also displayed.
CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to [email protected].

URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.in/2015/06/owning-internet-printing-case-study-in.html Apple Inc., CVE Technical Description 
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10702 Apple Inc., CVE Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00003.html Apple Inc., CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00006.html Apple Inc., CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00010.html Apple Inc., CVE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1123.html Apple Inc., CVE
http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L1082 Apple Inc., CVE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3283 Apple Inc., CVE
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/810572 Apple Inc., CVE Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75106 Apple Inc., CVE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032556 Apple Inc., CVE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2629-1 Apple Inc., CVE
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=924208 Apple Inc., CVE Issue Tracking 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221642 Apple Inc., CVE Issue Tracking 
https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=455 Apple Inc., CVE Exploit 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-07 Apple Inc., CVE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4609 Apple Inc., CVE Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

CPEs loading, please wait.

Denotes Vulnerable Software
Are we missing a CPE here? Please let us know.

Change History

12 change records found show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-1159
NVD Published Date:
06/26/2015
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Apple Inc.