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CVE-2014-4338

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-4338 is a vulnerability in cups-browsed within cups-filters versions prior to 1.0.53, allowing remote attackers to bypass access restrictions. This occurs when a malformed BrowseAllow directive in cups-browsed.conf is misinterpreted, granting browse access to all IP addresses. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a network-based attack with high complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.0.52CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:cups-filters:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.01%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0301 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: cups-filters-0:1.0.35-15.el7_0.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-4338Moderate

cups-filters: unsupported BrowseAllow value lets cups-browsed accept from all hosts

Apr 25, 2014

References

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/04/25/7
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/06/19/12
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1795.html
Third Party Advisory
bugs.linuxfoundation.org / show_bug.cgi
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/62044
Permissions Required
securityfocus.com / bid/68124
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry