CVE-2014-5029

Public on 2014-07-29
Modified on 2014-11-01
Description
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.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 cups 2014-10-28 ALAS-2014-438 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.0 AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 1.5 AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N