CVE-2014-8166

Publication date 12 January 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The browsing feature in the server in CUPS does not filter ANSI escape sequences from shared printer names, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted printer name.

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
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	15.04 vivid	Ignored end of life
	14.10 utopic	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life
	10.04 LTS lucid	Ignored end of life

Notes

sbeattie

printer names with ANSI escape sequences were allowed, can cause issues when doing lpstat -a in a terminal requires malicious adding of printers

mdeslaur

this code was removed in cups 1.6

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
cups	Redhat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=916761

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H