Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-8327

RCE

Title: Linuxfoundation Cups-Filters RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-8327.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 17, 2015

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

18.15%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-8327: Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in util.c in foomatic-rip in cups-filters 1.0.42 before 1.2.0 and in foomatic-filters in Foomatic 4.0.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via ` (backtick) characters in a print job.

Impacted Vendors

linuxprinting.org 1

linuxfoundation 2

openprinting 1

Reference Links

http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/annotate/head:/NEWS http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7406 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00065.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0491.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3411 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3429 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78524 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2831-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2831-2 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=806886 https://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2015/11/msg00020.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2015/12/msg00001.html http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/annotate/head:/NEWS http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7406 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00065.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0491.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3411 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3429 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78524 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2831-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2831-2 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=806886 https://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2015/11/msg00020.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2015/12/msg00001.html

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-2015-8327 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 17, 2015 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.