CVE-2014-2856: Apple Cups

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in scheduler/client.c in Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) before 1.7.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the URL path, related to the is_path_absolute function.

Affected products

• Apple Cups: up to and including 1.7.1; 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 2014-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.