CVE-2013-6891

Severity: low (CVSS 1.2 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: yes
Published: 2014-01-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-59

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.

Affected products

cups: through 1.7.0; 1.7-rc1, 1.7.1-b1
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.10, 13.04, 13.10

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0021.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/56531
http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L704
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:015
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2082-1
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0021.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/56531
http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L704
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:015
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2082-1

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