{"id":"CVE-2013-6891","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2013-6891","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:16:05.973Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2014-01-26T01:55:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:01:06.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":1.2,"severity":"LOW","vector":"AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-59"],"affected":["apple/cups","canonical/ubuntu linux"],"epss":{"score":0.00446,"percentile":0.38582,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.45%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0021.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/56531","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L704","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319","tags":["Exploit","Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:015","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2082-1","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0021.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/56531","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L704","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319","tags":["Exploit","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:015","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2082-1","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6891","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}