CVE-2013-6891 (GCVE-0-2013-6891)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-01-26 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 17:53
VLAI
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L704 x_refsource_CONFIRM
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http://secunia.com/advisories/56531 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2014-01-08 00:00
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