CVE-2012-5519 (GCVE-0-2012-5519)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-11-20 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:05
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
CUPS 1.4.4, when running in certain Linux distributions such as Debian GNU/Linux, stores the web interface administrator key in /var/run/cups/certs/0 using certain permissions, which allows local users in the lpadmin group to read or write arbitrary files as root by leveraging the web interface.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
13 references
Date Public
2012-11-10 00:00
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