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CVE-2013-6891 json

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

published 2014-01-26 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2013-6693

cvss
1.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 39%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • cups Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.7.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6891

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-6891 updated cvss 1.2

cups: lppasswd vulnerability allows data access to unprivileged user

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 cups Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 cups, cups-lpd, cups-php, cups-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 cups, cups-lpd, cups-libs, cups-client, cups-ipptool, cups-filesystem
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 39% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • cups.org http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 1.2 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

Sources

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