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CVE-2011-2899

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-2899 describes a command injection vulnerability in pysmb.py, specifically versions 0.6.x and 0.7.x of system-config-printer, as well as foomatic-gui and potentially other products. This flaw allows remote SMB servers to execute arbitrary commands by injecting shell metacharacters into the NetBIOS or workgroup name during network printer discovery. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.1, indicating a medium severity with a network attack vector, high attack complexity, and partial impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.7.32.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:system-config-printer:0.7.32.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7.32.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:system-config-printer:0.7.32.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7.32.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:system-config-printer:0.7.32.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7.32.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:system-config-printer:0.7.32.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7.32.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:system-config-printer:0.7.32.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.1MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0197 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: system-config-printer-0:0.6.116.10-1.6.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: system-config-printer-0:0.7.32.10-1.el5_7.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-2899Moderate

system-config-printer: possible arbitrary code execution in pysmb.py due to improper escaping of hostnames

Jul 30, 2011

References

cvs.savannah.gnu.org / viewvc/foomatic-gui/foomatic/pysmb.py
Patch
bugs.launchpad.net / ubuntu/+source/foomatic-gui/+bug/811119
Patch
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/45744
Vendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-1196.html
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id