CVE-2024-47850 Information

Description

CUPS cups-browsed before 2.5b1 will send an HTTP POST request to an arbitrary destination and port in response to a single IPP UDP packet requesting a printer to be added a different vulnerability than CVE-2024-47176. (The request is meant to probe the new printer but can be used to create DDoS amplification attacks.)

Reference

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/october-cups-ddos-threat