Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in cups-pk-helper - CVE-2012-4510
Published: November 20, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU43320
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-4510
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Freedesktop.org
Affected software:
cups-pk-helper
cups-pk-helper
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
cups-pk-helper before 0.2.3 does not properly wrap the (1) cupsGetFile and (2) cupsPutFile function calls, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read or overwrite sensitive files using CUPS resources.
How to mitigate CVE-2012-4510
Install update from vendor's website.