Published: 26/01/2014 Updated: 06/03/2014

CVSS v2 Base Score: 1.2 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.9

VMScore: 107

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

lppasswd in CUPS prior to 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.

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CUPS could be made to expose sensitive information ...

lppasswd in CUPS before 171, 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/clientconf ...

CWE-59 http://secunia.com/advisories/56531 http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L704 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2082-1 http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0021.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:015 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2082-1/https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-6891

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