CVE-2010-2431
LOW · CVSS 2.6EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
The cupsFileOpen function in CUPS before 1.4.4 allows local users, with lp group membership, to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /var/cache/cups/remote.cache or (2) /var/cache/cups/job.cache file.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-59
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (30th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-2440)
- Published
- June 22, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-2440 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / cups
- apple / cups
- apple / cups
- apple / cups
- apple / cups
- apple / cups
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- apple / cups
- apple / cups
- apple / cups
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- apple / cups
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- apple / cups
- apple / cups
- apple / cups
- apple / cups
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- apple / cups
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and 34 more…
References
- http://cups.org/articles.php?L596(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://cups.org/str.php?L3510
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0811.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43521(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:232
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:234
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2856(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605397
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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