CVE-2015-2265

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-03-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-77

Description

The 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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 14.10
Linuxfoundation Cups-Filters: through 1.0.65

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0132.html
http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7333
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00033.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:196
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2532-1
https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1265
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0132.html
http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7333
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00033.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:196
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2532-1
https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1265

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