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high 8.8

CVE-2014-8166 json

The browsing feature in the server in CUPS does not filter ANSI escape sequences from shared printer names, which might allow remote attack…

published 2018-01-12 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-8007

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.7%
EPSS 3.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The browsing feature in the server in CUPS does not filter ANSI escape sequences from shared printer names, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted printer name.

Patch / fix

  • cups cups 1.6

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-8166 updated cvss 4.3

cups: code execution via unescape ANSI escape sequences

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 cups Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 cups, cups-lpd, cups-php, cups-libs
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 cups, cups-lpd, cups-libs, cups-client, cups-ipptool, cups-filesystem
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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