CVE-2007-5208

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

13/10/2007

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

hpssd in Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project (hplip) 1.x and 2.x before 2.7.10 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a from address, which is not properly handled when invoking sendmail.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.60 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.60

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:hp:linux_imaging_and_printing_project::::::::		2.7.10 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:hp:linux_imaging_and_printing_project:1.0:::::::*

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CVE-2007-5208

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools