CVE-2026-4480
CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9 · OS command injection
9CVSS CRITICAL
Summary
A flaw was found in the Samba printing subsystem. Samba passes the client-controlled job description string to the command configured with the "print command" setting via the "%J" substitution character without escaping shell meta characters. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted print job description that contains unescaped shell characters. This could lead to remote code execution on the affected system.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16033Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4480Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22644
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22963
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25049
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25979
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2452232Advisory