🛡️ CVE-2025-58060 — cups

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-287 NVD

8.0

CVSS Score

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Description

OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.12 and earlier, when the AuthType is set to anything but Basic, if the request contains an Authorization: Basic ... header, the password is not checked. This results in authentication bypass. Any configuration that allows an AuthType that is not Basic is affected. Version 2.4.13 fixes the issue.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-58060 is classified as CWE-287: Improper Authentication. The identity of the caller is not established correctly, so an attacker can act as another user.

Affected software

CVE-2025-58060 is recorded against 1 package.

cups (fixed in 2.4.13)

Timeline and source

Published on 11 September 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
github.com
www.openwall.com
lists.debian.org

CVE-2025-58060 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Alpine BellSoft Debian Ubuntu

Details

Severity HIGH

CVSS Score 8.0

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H

CWE CWE-287

Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes

Source NVD

Published 2025-09-11

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/commit/595d691075b1d396d2edfaa0a8fd0873a0a1f221

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
cups	—	2.4.13

References

Patch https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/commit/595d691075b1d396d2edfaa0a8fd0873a0a1f221

Exploit, Vendor Advisory https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/security/advisories/GHSA-4c68-qgrh-rmmq

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/11/1

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00013.html

🔗 NVD 🔗 Mitre ✅ Fix / Advisory

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