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CVE-2014-4336

cups-filters: incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2707

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

5.8

CVSS 2.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · April 23, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The generate_local_queue function in utils/cups-browsed.c in cups-browsed in cups-filters before 1.0.53 allows remote IPP printers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the host name. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2707.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of cups-filters as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5.8
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE not specified