CVE-2025-58364 cups: Remote DoS via null dereference
Remote attackers can crash CUPS services via null dereference in printer attribute validation, affecting default local network configurations.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-58364?
CVE-2025-58364 is a medium-severity vulnerability in OpenPrinting cups, published on 11 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.12 and earlier, an unsafe deserialization and validation of printer attributes causes null dereference in the libcups library. This is a remote DoS vulnerability available in local subnet in default configurations. It can cause the cups & cups-browsed to crash, on all the machines in local network who are listening for printers (so by default for all regular linux machines). On systems where the vulnerability CVE-2024-47176 (cups-filters 1.x/cups-browsed 2.x vulnerability) was not fixed, and the firewall on the machine does not reject incoming communication to IPP port, and the machine is set to be available to public internet, attack vector "Network" is possible. The current versions of CUPS and cups-browsed projects have the attack vector "Adjacent" in their default configurations. Version 2.4.13 contains a patch for CVE-2025-58364.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-58364?
It affects 1 product.
Linux distribution packages (28)
cups AlmaLinux:8 | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-client AlmaLinux:8 | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-devel AlmaLinux:8 | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-filesystem AlmaLinux:8 | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-ipptool AlmaLinux:8 | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-libs AlmaLinux:8 | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-lpd AlmaLinux:8 | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-client Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-client-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-debugsource Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-filesystem Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-ipptool Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-ipptool-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-libs-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-lpd Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-lpd-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-client-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-debugsource Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-ipptool-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-libs-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups-lpd-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
cups Rocky Linux:8 | All versions | 1:2.2.6-64.el8_10 |
Products include Openprinting Cups.
How do I fix CVE-2025-58364?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2025-58364 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-58364 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in OpenPrinting cups
- CVE-2025-58060 cups has Authentication bypass with AuthType Negotiate
- CVE-2026-34978 Path traversal in cups
- CVE-2026-34980 OpenPrinting CUPS: Shared PostScript queue lets anonymous Print-Job requests reach `lp` code execution over the network
- CVE-2025-61915 OpenPrinting CUPS vulnerable to stack based out-of-bound write
- CVE-2026-55480 CUPS copy_model() creates a predictable PPD tempfile without O_EXCL/O_NOFOLLOW (symlink TOCTOU, lp → root)
Sources
Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2025-58364, ALSA-2025:22063, AZL-67133, AZL-67136, BELL-CVE-2025-58364, CLSA-2025-1759409921 and 10 more.