Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in cups-filters - CVE-2013-6476

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in cups-filters - CVE-2013-6476

Published: March 14, 2014 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32562
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-6476
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

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.


Affected software

cups-filters
Gentoo Linux
cups-filters (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2013-6476

Install update from vendor's website.

cups-filters - update to 1.0.47
cups-filters (Alpine package) - update to 1.0.41-r1

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