CVE-2023-4504

high

Description

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.

References

Advisories
More

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PXPVADB56NMLJWG4IZ3OZBNJ2ZOLPQJ6/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00041.html

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/libppd/security/advisories/GHSA-4f65-6ph5-qwh6

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/security/advisories/GHSA-pf5r-86w9-678h

https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-4504.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/T2GSPQAFK2Z6L57TRXEKZDF42K2EVBH7/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/AMYDKIE4PSJDEMC5OWNFCDMHFGLJ57XG/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5WVS4I7JG3LISFPKTM6ADKJXXEPEEWBQ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5WHEJIYMMAIXU2EC35MGTB5LGGO2FFJE/

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/releases/tag/v2.4.7

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Sep/33

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-09-21

Updated: 2025-11-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00181