CVE-2014-4336: Linuxfoundation Cups-Filters

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The generate_local_queue function in utils/cups-browsed.c in cups-browsed in cups-filters before 1.0.53 allows remote IPP printers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the host name. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2707.

Affected products

• Linuxfoundation Cups-Filters: up to and including 1.0.52

Published 2014-06-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.