CVE-2013-6891
LOW · CVSS 1.2EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 1.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-59
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (39th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-6693)
- Published
- January 26, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-6693 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / cups
- apple / cups
- apple / cups
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
References
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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