OS Command Injection in cups-filters - CVE-2014-2707
Published: April 17, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41791
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-2707
CWE-ID: CWE-78
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: OpenPrinting
Affected software:
cups-filters
cups-filters
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
cups-browsed in cups-filters 1.0.41 before 1.0.51 allows remote IPP printers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) model or (2) PDL, related to "System V interface scripts generated for queues."
How to mitigate CVE-2014-2707
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7188#NEWS
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131485.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/13
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57530
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2210-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1083326