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CVE-2013-6891

lppasswd in CUPS before 1.7.1, when running with setuid privileges, allows local users to read portions of arbitrary files via a modified HOME environment vari…

Impact

lppasswd in CUPS before 1.7.1, when running with setuid privileges, allows local users to read portions of arbitrary files via a modified HOME environment variable and a symlink attack involving .cups/client.conf.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
AppleCups
through 1.7.0
Versions 1.7, 1.7.1
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 12.10, 13.04, 13.10

Weakness classification

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