CVE-2013-6891

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-59 Link Following

Publication date:

26/01/2014

Last modified:

11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 1.20 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

1.20

Severity 2.0

LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups::::::::		1.7.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups:1.7:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups:1.7.1:b1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups::::::::		1.7.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups:1.7:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups:1.7.1:b1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10:::::::*

CVE-2013-6891

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools