Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-2265

RCE

Title: Linuxfoundation Cups-Filters RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-2265.

CWE Category CWE-77
Published Date Mar 24, 2015
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
5.77%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-2265: 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.

Impacted Vendors

O
openprinting 1
L
linuxfoundation 1

Reference Links

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
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-2265 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.