Command Injection in cups-filters - CVE-2015-2265
Published: March 24, 2015 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32368
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-2265
CWE-ID: CWE-77
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
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 software
cups-filters
cups-filters (Alpine package)
cups-filters
Fedora
cups-filters (Alpine package)
cups-filters
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2015-2265
Install update from vendor's website.
cups-filters - update to 1.0.66
cups-filters (Alpine package) - update to 1.0.61-r2
cups-filters - addressed in versions 1.0.66-1.fc21, 1.0.66-1.fc22
cups-filters (Alpine package) - update to 1.0.61-r2
cups-filters - addressed in versions 1.0.66-1.fc21, 1.0.66-1.fc22
External 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