Access Restriction Bypass Affecting distrotech/cups-filters package, versions [,1.0.47)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-DISTROTECHCUPSFILTERS-2370981
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Mar 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Mar 2014

CVE-2013-6476  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade distrotech/cups-filters to version 1.0.47 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The OPVPWrapper::loadDriver function in oprs/OPVPWrapper.cxx in the pdftoopvp filter in CUPS and cups-filters before 1.0.47 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse driver in the same directory as the PDF file.

CVSS Scores

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