It was discovered that CUPS allowed certain users to create symbolic links in certain directories under /var/cache/cups/. A local user with the 'lp' group privileges could use this flaw to read the contents of arbitrary files on the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | cups | 2014-10-28 17:17 | ALAS-2014-438 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 5.0 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:P/A:N |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |