VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2013-6402
base/pkit.py in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) through 3.13.11 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/hp-pkservice.log temporary file.
LOW 2.1EPSS 0.49%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.49%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
base/pkit.py in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) through 3.13.11 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/hp-pkservice.log temporary file.
- CVSS 2.0
- 2.1 LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.49% probability · 41th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-59
- Affected
- hp/linux imaging and printing project
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725876
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00087.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00098.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2829
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2085-1
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=852368
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6402
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725876
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00087.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00098.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2829
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2085-1
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=852368
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6402
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.