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OpenPrinting CUPS Remote Code Execution Exploit Chain: What You Should Know

by Matthew Lloyd Davies and Michael Teske

Discover the key information you need to know about the latest critical Linux vulnerability and what it means for your organization.

What you'll learn

A group of vulnerabilities* within OpenPrinting CUPS, an open source collection of tools found in modern Linux distributions to manage, discover, and share printers. By chaining these vulnerabilities together, an attacker could achieve remote code execution, which could result in impacts to data confidentiality, integrity and availability. With this course, OpenPrinting CUPS Remote Code Execution Exploit Chain: What You Should Know, you’ll understand what this vulnerability means to you, and the steps you need to take to mitigate your organization’s exposure.

  • CVE-2024-47076, CVE-2024-47175, CVE-2024-47176 and CVE-2024-47177

Table of contents

OpenPrinting CUPS Remote Code Execution Exploit Chain: What You Should Know
13mins

About the authors

Matt is a cyber security author and researcher here at Pluralsight. A certified penetration tester and incident handler, he created Pluralsight's CompTIA Pentest+ Specialized Attacks courses as well our courses on wireless, ICS/OT and hardware hacking. Matt has also helped to build our security labs portfolio; labs that help you get hands-on to understand the threats and vulnerabilities your organization faces today. With a background in Chemical Engineering, Matt's focus is on the security ... more

Michael Teske is a principal security author with Pluralsight helping people build their skills toolkit. Michael has 25+ years of experience in the IT Ops/Cloud/Cybersecurity industry including 17 of those years as an IT instructor at a technical college, focusing on Microsoft server infrastructure, security and automation. Michael attained his MBA with an emphasis in Computer Information System Security several years ago. Michael still keeps up with the industry as an independent consultant in ... more

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