Vulnerability in Cups-Pk-Helper Project
CVE-2012-4510
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.012 (67.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 68th percentile — 67.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Cups-Pk-Helper Project — versions 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.0.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/12/2 (mailing-list)
- www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2562 (vendor-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)