CVE-2007-5208

Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 67.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-10-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

hpssd in Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project (hplip) 1.x and 2.x before 2.7.10 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a from address, which is not properly handled when invoking sendmail.

Affected products

HP Linux Imaging And Printing Project: through 2.7.10; 1.0

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195565
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00006.html
http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=30719
http://secunia.com/advisories/27202
http://secunia.com/advisories/27221
http://secunia.com/advisories/27224
http://secunia.com/advisories/27232
http://secunia.com/advisories/27271
http://secunia.com/advisories/27332
http://secunia.com/advisories/27397
http://secunia.com/advisories/28453
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-26.xml

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