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CVE-2014-5029

cups: Incomplete fix for CVE-2014-3537

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5

CVSS 2.0

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Published · July 22, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

It was discovered that CUPS allowed certain users to create symbolic links in certain directories under /var/cache/cups/. A local user with the 'lp' group privileges could use this flaw to read the contents of arbitrary files on the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system.

Statement

This issue is not planned to be fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as it is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle, https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

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 · 5
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:P/A:N

CWE-59 · Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')