CVE-2017-15400
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.86% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 58.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-02-07 23:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 19:57Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-10-17
- Assigning CNA
- Chrome
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6878d8571f921bfa0b5d62d57688237725881bfc7f1ea5a2a49e8fefe038abc9
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.debian.orgDSA-4243https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4243
- chromereleases.googleblog.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-update-for-chrome-os_27.html
- crbug.comhttps://crbug.com/777215
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201908-08https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-08
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- cups Fixed in 2.2.3-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- cups Fixed in 2.2.3-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- cups Fixed in 2.2.3-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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