CUPS is a standards-based, open-source printing system, and `libcupsfilters` contains the code of the filters of the former `cups-filters` package as library functions to be used for the data format conversion tasks needed in Printer Applications. In CUPS-Filters versions up to and including 1.28.17 and libscupsfilters versions 2.0.0 through 2.1.1, CUPS-Filters's `imagetoraster` filter has an out of bounds read/write vulnerability in the processing of TIFF image files. While the pixel buffer is allocated with the number of pixels times a pre-calculated bytes-per-pixel value, the function which processes these pixels is called with a size of the number of pixels times 3. When suitable inputs are passed, the bytes-per-pixel value can be set to 1 and bytes outside of the buffer bounds get processed. In order to trigger the bug, an attacker must issue a print job with a crafted TIFF file, and pass appropriate print job options to control the bytes-per-pixel value of the output format. They must choose a printer configuration under which the `imagetoraster` filter or its C-function equivalent `cfFilterImageToRaster()` gets invoked. The vulnerability exists in both CUPS-Filters 1.x and the successor library libcupsfilters (CUPS-Filters 2.x). In CUPS-Filters 2.x, the vulnerable function is `_cfImageReadTIFF() in libcupsfilters`. When this function is invoked as part of `cfFilterImageToRaster()`, the caller passes a look-up-table during whose processing the out of bounds memory access happens. In CUPS-Filters 1.x, the equivalent functions are all found in the cups-filters repository, which is not split into subprojects yet, and the vulnerable code is in `_cupsImageReadTIFF()`, which is called through `cupsImageOpen()` from the `imagetoraster` tool. A patch is available in commit b69dfacec7f176281782e2f7ac44f04bf9633cfa.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-57812 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
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| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
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| 1 | 2026-04-10 | 0.06% | 0.02% | -0.04% |
| 2 | 2026-01-18 | 0.02% | 0.06% | +0.04% |
| 3 | 2025-11-13 | — | 0.02% | — |
Full EPSS history (3 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
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| 3.7 | 3.1 | LOW |
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1.2 | 2.5 | [email protected] |
| 3.7 | 3.1 | LOW |
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1.2 | 2.5 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
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debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2025-57812 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 2 source packages (cups-filters, libcupsfilters), 8 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 8. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-57812 |
redhat
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low | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-57812 |
suse
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medium | — | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-57812/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2025-57812 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (cups-filters, libcupsfilters), 13 status rows across 8 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, upstream, xenial): released 7, not-affected 3, needs-triage 2, DNE 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-57812 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| openprinting | cups-filters | < 1.28.17 | cpe:2.3:a:openprinting:cups-filters:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| openprinting | libcupsfilters | >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.1 | cpe:2.3:a:openprinting:libcupsfilters:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |