Vulnerability CVE-2014-5029
Published: 2014-07-29

Description:
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.

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
1.5/10
2.9/10
2.7/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 
Apple -> CUPS 

 References:
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0313.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1388.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60787
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2990
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:108
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/22/13
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/22/2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2341-1
https://cups.org/str.php?L4455
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