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CVE-2013-6891

LOW severity · CVSS 1.2 · CWE-59
1.2CVSS LOW

Summary

lppasswd in CUPS before 1.7.1, when running with setuid privileges, allows local users to read portions of arbitrary files via a modified HOME environment variable and a symlink attack involving .cups/client.conf.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319 ↗