CVE-2014-3537

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: none known
Published: 2014-07-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The web interface in CUPS before 1.7.4 allows local users in the lp group to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in /var/cache/cups/rss/.

Affected products

cups: through 1.7.3; 1.7-rc1, 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.1-b1, 1.7.2
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 14.04
Fedoraproject Fedora: 20

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0313.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0101.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-July/135528.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1388.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59945
http://secunia.com/advisories/60273
http://secunia.com/advisories/60787
http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L724
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4450
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68788
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030611

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