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CVE-2015-8327

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-8327 describes an incomplete blacklist vulnerability in foomatic-rip (cups-filters) and foomatic-filters (Foomatic 4.0.x) that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This critical vulnerability, affecting Canonical, Debian, Linux Foundation, and Red Hat products, has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity due to its network-based attack vector, low complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.7.zCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:6.7.z:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
10.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1017 is in the 92nd 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: foomatic-0:4.0.4-5.el6_7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: foomatic

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-8327Moderate

cups-filters: foomatic-rip did not consider the back tick as an illegal shell escape character

Nov 26, 2015

References

bzr.linuxfoundation.org / loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/annotate/head:/NEWS
Vendor Advisory
bzr.linuxfoundation.org / loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7406
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00065.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0491.html
bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
lists.debian.org / debian-printing/2015/11/msg00020.html
lists.debian.org / debian-printing/2015/12/msg00001.html
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3411
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3429
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
securityfocus.com / bid/78524
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2831-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2831-2