CVE-2013-6891

high

Description

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.

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2082-1

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:015

http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L704

http://secunia.com/advisories/56531

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0021.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-01-26

Updated: 2014-03-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High