CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) is a standards-based, open-source printing system. Recent several vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-47076, CVE-2024-47175, CVE-2024-47176, CVE-2024-47177) were discovered and are potentially allowing hackers to remotely run code on machines that expose the service over UDP (usually, on port 631).
It is recommended to block ports for UDP. It is a good practice to avoid open IPP services also over UDP.
As checking for affected UDP open services triggers a connection from the vulnerable machine to the attacking system, and relying on the fact that most of the detected vulnerable systems over UDP had open IPP service over TCP on the same port, IONIX marks assets as potentially affected based on services with open IPP ports (TCP). Notice, that having IPP service publicly open is also not a good practice, and we recommend to close it as well.
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