CVE-2015-8560

cups-filters: foomatic-rip did not consider semicolon as illegal shell escape character

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.1

CVSS 2.0

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Published · December 12, 2015

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

It was discovered that foomatic-rip failed to remove all shell special characters from inputs used to construct command lines for external programs run by the filter. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-77 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')