CVE-2014-8166

cups: code execution via unescape ANSI escape sequences

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · March 24, 2015

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in the way the CUPS daemon added shared printers announced through the network. A malicious host or user could send a specially crafted UDP packet to a CUPS server that, when processed, could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running the CUPS daemon.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation