Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-4480
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.004
EPSS Ranking 60.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.0
Products affected by CVE-2026-4480
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cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.10
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.11
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.12
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.13
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.14
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.15
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.16
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.17
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.18
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.19
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.20
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.21
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.22
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.23
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.5
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.6
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.7
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.8
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.1.9
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cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.2.0
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0