CVE-2017-15400

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2017-10-27
CWE:
CWE-266
Bugzilla:
1607288: CVE-2017-15400 cups: Insufficient restriction of IPP filters allows a remote attacker to execute commands with the privilege level of cups daemon

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Insufficient restriction of IPP filters in CUPS in Google Chrome OS prior to 62.0.3202.74 allowed a remote attacker to execute a command with the same privileges as the cups daemon via a crafted PPD file, aka a printer zeroconfig CRLF issue.

Find out more about CVE-2017-15400 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 7.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact Low

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Virtualization 4 cups Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 cups Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 cups Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 cups Not affected

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