Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource Affecting apple/cups package, versions [,2.2-b1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.91% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-APPLECUPS-2364759
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Jul 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Jul 2014

CVE-2014-5031  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-732  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade apple/cups to version 2.2-b1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. The web interface in CUPS before 2.0 does not check that files have world-readable permissions, which allows remote attackers to obtains sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1