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 variable and a symlink attack involving .cups/client.conf.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.45%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 1.2 LOWAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.45% probability · 39th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-59
- Affected
- apple/cups · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 0.4% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0021.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56531Vendor Advisory
- http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L704
- http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319Exploit, Patch
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:015
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2082-1
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0021.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56531Vendor Advisory
- http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L704
- http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319Exploit, Patch
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:015
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2082-1
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.