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CVE-2015-8327 in the critical feed json

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in util.c in foomatic-rip in cups-filters 1.0.42 before 1.2.0 and in foomatic-filters in Foomatic 4.0.x…

published 2015-12-17 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-8211

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.6%
EPSS 10.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in util.c in foomatic-rip in cups-filters 1.0.42 before 1.2.0 and in foomatic-filters in Foomatic 4.0.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via ` (backtick) characters in a print job.

Patch / fix

  • cups-filters Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.2.0-1
  • foomatic-filters Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.0.17-7

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8327

  • cups-filters Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6
  • foomatic-filters Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4.0.17-1+deb7u1ubuntu0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8327

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • foomatic RHEL 6 4.0.4-5.el6_7

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:0491

  • foomatic-filters SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES for SAP 11 SP3, SLES 11 SP4 +4 more 3.0.2-269.39.1
  • cups-filters SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12 SP1 +3 more 1.0.58-13.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:0112-1SUSE-SU-2016:0092-1

  • cups-filters openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.8.2-1.11

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10313-1

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-2015-8327 updated cvss 5.1

cups-filters: foomatic-rip did not consider the back tick as an illegal shell escape character

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 foomatic, foomatic-filters
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) foomatic 4.0.4-5.el6_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) foomatic 4.0.4-5.el6_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) foomatic 4.0.4-5.el6_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) foomatic 4.0.4-5.el6_7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0491
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 cups Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 cups, cups-lpd, cups-php, cups-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 cups-filters, cups-filters-libs
    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

10.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.