VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-3537

low
Published 2014-07-23 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
1.2

Description

The web interface in CUPS before 1.7.4 allows local users in the lp group to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in /var/cache/cups/rss/.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
fedora Fedora Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
20 Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
10.04 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.7.4-1
sid Fixed 1.7.4-1
forky Fixed 1.7.4-1
bullseye Fixed 1.7.4-1
bookworm Fixed 1.7.4-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
macos applecups{"endIncluding":"1.7.3"}
macos applecups1.7
macos applecups1.7.0
macos applecups1.7.1
macos applecups1.7.2

References

CWEs

CWE-59

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.