CVE-2014-5029

2014-07-2900:00:00

ubuntu.com

1.5 Low

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.2%

JSON

The web interface in CUPS 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/ and
language[0] set to null. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an
incomplete fix for CVE-2014-3537.

Bugs

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	The patch below introduces a regression preventing the web interface from being able to read log files. (See comments in bug 4455.)

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu10.04noarchcups< 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.13UNKNOWN
ubuntu12.04noarchcups< 1.5.3-0ubuntu8.5UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarchcups< 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.2UNKNOWN