Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 29, 2025· Updated Dec 3, 2025
OpenPrinting CUPS vulnerable to stack based out-of-bound write
CVE-2025-61915
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.
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Affected products
29<2.4.15+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <2.4.15
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.15
- osv-coords27 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/cupspkg:rpm/almalinux/cups-clientpkg:rpm/almalinux/cups-develpkg:rpm/almalinux/cups-filesystempkg:rpm/almalinux/cups-ipptoolpkg:rpm/almalinux/cups-libspkg:rpm/almalinux/cups-lpdpkg:rpm/almalinux/cups-printerapppkg:rpm/opensuse/cups&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/cups&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/cups&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.5pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Desktop%20Applications%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Desktop%20Applications%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Development%20Tools%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Development%20Tools%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2016.0pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20applications%2016.0pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20LTSS%20Extended%20Security%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.0pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.1pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.2
< 1:2.3.3op2-34.el9_7.2+ 26 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1:2.3.3op2-34.el9_7.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1:2.3.3op2-34.el9_7.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1:2.3.3op2-34.el9_7.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1:2.3.3op2-34.el9_7.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1:2.3.3op2-34.el9_7.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1:2.3.3op2-34.el9_7.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1:2.3.3op2-34.el9_7.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1:2.3.3op2-34.el9_7.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.77.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.16-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.16-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.77.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.77.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.77.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.77.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.77.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.77.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.77.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.77.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.77.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.77.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.16-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.16-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.7.5-20.57.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.16-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.16-slfo.1.1_1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.16-160000.1.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3- github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/commit/db8d560262c22a21ee1e55dfd62fa98d9359bcb0mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/releases/tag/v2.4.15mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/security/advisories/GHSA-hxm8-vfpq-jrfcmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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