CVE-2017-15400

cups: Insufficient restriction of IPP filters allows a remote attacker to execute commands with the privilege level of cups daemon

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

7.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · October 27, 2017

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE-266 · Incorrect Privilege Assignment