CVE-2017-15400

Publication date 7 February 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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 file, aka a printer zeroconfig CRLF issue.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
cups	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

chromium bug mentions crlf injection code introduced in 2.2.0

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
cups	Upstream: 07428f6 Upstream: 1add233

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H