Vulnerability CVE-2008-2940
Published: 2008-08-14   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The alert-mailing implementation in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 1.6.7 allows local users to gain privileges and send e-mail messages from the root account via vectors related to the setalerts message, and lack of validation of the device URI associated with an event message.

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
HP -> Linux imaging and printing project 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455235
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44441
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-674-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30683
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0818.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:169
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020684
http://secunia.com/advisories/32792
http://secunia.com/advisories/32316
http://secunia.com/advisories/31499
http://secunia.com/advisories/31470
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10136
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00006.html
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