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CVE-2012-5519

CVE-2012-5519

18Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 2.1%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDNov 20
metasploitNov 20
exploitation probability
2.1%top 20% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
References
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692791http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00003.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00006.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00010.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0580.htmlhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80012http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5784http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/5http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/11/2http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/11/5http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56494