CVE-2015-8560

high

Published 2016-04-14 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.3

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in util.c in foomatic-rip in cups-filters 1.0.42 before 1.4.0 and in foomatic-filters in Foomatic 4.0.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a ; (semicolon) character in a print job, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8327.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

82%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.4.0-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.4.0-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.4.0-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.4.0-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.4.0-1`
debian	8.0	affected
ubuntu	12.04	affected
ubuntu	14.04	affected
ubuntu	15.04	affected
ubuntu	15.10	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.42`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.43`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.44`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.45`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.46`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.47`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.48`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.49`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.50`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.51`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.52`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.53`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.54`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.55`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.56`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.57`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.58`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.59`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.60`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.61`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.62`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.63`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.64`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.65`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.66`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.67`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.68`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.69`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.70`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.71`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.72`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.73`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.74`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.75`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.0.76`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.1.0`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.2.0`
linuxfoundation	cups-filters	`1.3.0`
linuxfoundation	foomatic-filters	`4.0.0`
linuxfoundation	foomatic-filters	`4.0.1`
linuxfoundation	foomatic-filters	`4.0.2`
linuxfoundation	foomatic-filters	`4.0.3`
linuxfoundation	foomatic-filters	`4.0.4`
linuxfoundation	foomatic-filters	`4.0.5`
linuxfoundation	foomatic-filters	`4.0.6`
linuxfoundation	foomatic-filters	`4.0.7`
linuxfoundation	foomatic-filters	`4.0.8`
linuxfoundation	foomatic-filters	`4.0.9`
linuxfoundation	foomatic-filters	`4.0.10`
linuxfoundation	foomatic-filters	`4.0.11`
linuxfoundation	foomatic-filters	`4.0.12`
linuxfoundation	foomatic-filters	`4.0.13`
linuxfoundation	foomatic-filters	`4.0.14`
linuxfoundation	foomatic-filters	`4.0.15`
linuxfoundation	foomatic-filters	`4.0.16`
linuxfoundation	foomatic-filters	`4.0.17`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.