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TI-2023-16941 Aliases CVE-2023-34095

cpdb-libs vulnerable to buffer overflows via scanf

Priority HIGH 82CWE-121Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-121 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

cpdb-libs provides frontend and backend libraries for the Common Printing Dialog Backends (CPDB) project. In versions 1.0 through 2.0b4, cpdb-libs is vulnerable to buffer overflows via improper use of `scanf(3)`. cpdb-libs uses the `fscanf()` and `scanf()` functions to parse command lines and configuration files, dropping the read string components into fixed-length buffers, but does not limit the length of the strings to be read by `fscanf()` and `scanf()` causing buffer overflows when a string is longer than 1023 characters. A patch for this issue is available at commit f181bd1f14757c2ae0f17cc76dc20421a40f30b7. As all buffers have a length of 1024 characters, the patch limits the maximum string length to be read to 1023 by replacing all occurrences of `%s` with `%1023s` in all calls of the `fscanf()` and `scanf()` functions.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.01539 75th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 2 exploit referencesTagged by NVD
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Total

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Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
OpenPrintingcpdb-libs1.0 – 2.0b4—No fix listedCNA
  • cpdb-libs VendorOpenPrinting Affected 1.0 – 2.0b4 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 5

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:openprinting:cpdb-libs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*1.0 to before 2.0VulnerableOpenPrinting
cpe:2.3:a:openprinting:cpdb-libs:2.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*2.0 beta1VulnerableOpenPrinting
cpe:2.3:a:openprinting:cpdb-libs:2.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*2.0 beta2VulnerableOpenPrinting
cpe:2.3:a:openprinting:cpdb-libs:2.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*2.0 beta3VulnerableOpenPrinting
cpe:2.3:a:openprinting:cpdb-libs:2.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*2.0 beta4VulnerableOpenPrinting
  • cpe:2.3:a:openprinting:cpdb-libs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 1.0 to before 2.0 Vulnerable ·OpenPrinting
  • cpe:2.3:a:openprinting:cpdb-libs:2.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.0 beta1 Vulnerable ·OpenPrinting
  • cpe:2.3:a:openprinting:cpdb-libs:2.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.0 beta2 Vulnerable ·OpenPrinting
  • cpe:2.3:a:openprinting:cpdb-libs:2.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.0 beta3 Vulnerable ·OpenPrinting
  • cpe:2.3:a:openprinting:cpdb-libs:2.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.0 beta4 Vulnerable ·OpenPrinting

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-34095

References

Sources

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