CVE-2015-2265

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-2265
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-03-24 17:59:09 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionThe remove_bad_chars function in utils/cups-browsed.c in cups-filters before 1.0.66 allows remote IPP printers to execute arbitrary commands via consecutive shell metacharacters in the (1) model or (2) PDL. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2707.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-77 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.10 All All All
Application Linuxfoundation Cups-filters All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Mageia Advisory: MGASA-2015-0132 - Updated cups-filters packages fix CVE-2015-2265 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 advisories.mageia.org
Bug 1265 – CUPS-filters remove_bad_chars() bypass af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.linuxfoundation.org Exploit
USN-2532-1: cups-filters vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Patch
openSUSE-SU-2015:1244-1: moderate: Security update for cups-filters af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
/openprinting/cups-filters : revision 7333 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bzr.linuxfoundation.org Vendor Advisory
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2015:196 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
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