CVE-2025-61915

Publication date 27 November 2025

Last updated 3 December 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.0 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Prior to version 2.4.15, a user in the lpadmin group can use the cups web ui to change the config and insert a malicious line. Then the cupsd process which runs as root will parse the new config and cause an out-of-bound write. This issue has been patched in version 2.4.15.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
cups 25.10 questing
Fixed 2.4.12-0ubuntu3.3
25.04 plucky
Fixed 2.4.12-0ubuntu1.4
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2.4.7-1.2ubuntu7.7
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.15
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.3.1-9ubuntu1.9+esm3
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.2.7-1ubuntu2.10+esm9
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.11+esm11

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.0 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

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