CVE-2010-2431

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-06-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The cupsFileOpen function in CUPS before 1.4.4 allows local users, with lp group membership, to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /var/cache/cups/remote.cache or (2) /var/cache/cups/job.cache file.

Affected products

cups: through 1.4.3; 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5 (+77)

References

http://cups.org/articles.php?L596
http://cups.org/str.php?L3510
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0811.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/43521
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:232
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:234
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2856
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605397
http://cups.org/articles.php?L596

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