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high 7.8

CVE-2017-15400 json

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 wi…

published 2018-02-07 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-6853

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • google chrome_os 62.0.3202.74
  • cups Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.2.3-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15400

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-2017-15400 updated cvss 7.3

cups: Insufficient restriction of IPP filters allows a remote attacker to execute commands with the privilege level of cups daemon

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 cups Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 cups, cups-lpd, cups-php, cups-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 cups, cups-lpd, cups-libs, cups-client, cups-ipptool, cups-filesystem Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 cups, cups-lpd, cups-libs, cups-client, cups-ipptool, cups-filesystem Red Hat Virtualization 4 cups
    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

0.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • n/a Google Chrome OS prior to 62.0.3202.74

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-93 Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences

References

Sources

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