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CVE-2017-15400

Published: 7 February 2018

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
chromium bug mentions crlf injection
code introduced in 2.2.0

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
cups
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Not vulnerable
(2.2.4-7ubuntu3)
bionic Not vulnerable
(2.2.6-5)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [code not present])
upstream
Released (2.2.2)
xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/apple/cups/commit/07428f6a640ff93aa0b4cc69ca372e2cf8490e41
upstream: https://github.com/apple/cups/commit/1add23375658e9163e5493ee19de7c9f7a9b483b

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H