CVE-2023-4504
OpenPrinting CUPS/libppd Postscript Parsing Heap Overflow
HIGH 7.0EPSS 0.7%
Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted PPD PostScript document, CUPS and libppd are susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow and possibly code execution. This issue has been fixed in CUPS version 2.4.7, released in September of 2023.
- Affected
- OpenPrinting · CUPS · libppd
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 7.0 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 0.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 51st percentile
- Published
- 2023-09-21
- Updated
- 2025-11-04
Proof-of-concept exploits (3)
- OpenPrinting/cups/security/advisories/GHSA-pf5r-86w9-678h
- OpenPrinting/libppd/security/advisories/GHSA-4f65-6ph5-qwh6
- djjohnson565/CUPS-Exploit3★ · 2025-05-09
Security advisories
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00041.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/me…
- OpenPrinting/cups/releases/tag/v2.4.7
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/me…
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/me…
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/me…
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/me…