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CVE-2015-8560

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-8560 describes an incomplete blacklist vulnerability in foomatic-rip, affecting cups-filters versions prior to 1.4.0 and Foomatic 4.0.x. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by injecting a semicolon into print jobs, impacting Canonical, Debian, and Linux Foundation products. The vulnerability carries a CVSSv3 score of 7.3 (High), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and no user interaction required, potentially leading to low confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. Its EPSS score of 0.10031 suggests a relatively low probability of exploitation. Currently, there is no known active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. The CVE has received minimal community discussion and media coverage, suggesting it is not a widely recognized or actively targeted threat.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
15.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.3HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0525 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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-2015-8560Moderate

cups-filters: foomatic-rip did not consider semicolon as illegal shell escape character

Dec 12, 2015

References

bzr.linuxfoundation.org / loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/annotate/head:/NEWS
Vendor Advisory
bzr.linuxfoundation.org / loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7419
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0491.html
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3419
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3429
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/12/13/2
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/13
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2838-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2838-2