CVE-2012-5519
EPSS 7.2%cups - privilege escalation
Published: 11/20/2012Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
CUPS 1.4.4, when running in certain Linux distributions such as Debian GNU/Linux, stores the web interface administrator key in /var/run/cups/certs/0 using certain permissions, which allows local users in the lpadmin group to read or write arbitrary files as root by leveraging the web interface.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/cupsfrom 0, < 1.5.3-2.7
- Debian/cupsfrom 0, < 1.4.4-7+squeeze2