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CVE-2013-6891

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.

Published

2014-01-26T01:55:09.563

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 1.2 (LOW)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: HIGH
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

1.9

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-59

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	apple	cups	≤ 1.7.0	Yes
Application	apple	cups	1.7	Yes
Application	apple	cups	1.7.1	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	12.10	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	13.04	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	13.10	Yes

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0021.html ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/56531 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L704 ([email protected])
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319 Exploit, Patch ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:015 ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2082-1 ([email protected])
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0021.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/56531 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L704 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319 Exploit, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:015 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2082-1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)