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CVE-2015-2265

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-2265 is a remote code execution vulnerability in the cups-filters utility, affecting versions prior to 1.0.66, including Canonical and Linux Foundation distributions. It allows malicious remote IPP printers to execute arbitrary commands by injecting shell metacharacters into the model or PDL fields. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered high severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.0.65CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:cups-filters:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0296 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

ubuntupatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-2265Important

cups-filters: remote command execution in remove_bad_chars() (incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2707)

Feb 26, 2015

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2015-0132.html
bzr.linuxfoundation.org / loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7333
Vendor Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00033.html
bugs.linuxfoundation.org / show_bug.cgi
Exploit
mandriva.com / security/advisories
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2532-1
Patch