CVE-2010-2432: Apple Cups

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The cupsDoAuthentication function in auth.c in the client in CUPS before 1.4.4, when HAVE_GSSAPI is omitted, does not properly handle a demand for authorization, which allows remote CUPS servers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED responses.

Affected products

• Apple Cups: up to and including 1.4.3; version 1.1 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only; version 1.1.3 only; version 1.1.4 only; …

Published 2010-06-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.