CVE-2013-6891
cups: lppasswd vulnerability allows data access to unprivileged user
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · December 19, 2013
Updated · January 8, 2026
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.
Statement
Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of CUPS as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 as they did not ship with an suid-root lppasswd binary.
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 1.2AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CWE not specified