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CVE-2010-2431

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Date: June 22, 2010

The cupsFileOpen function in CUPS before 1.4.4 allows local users, with lp group membership, to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /var/cache/cups/remote.cache or (2) /var/cache/cups/job.cache file.

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Related Resources (15)

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:232
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:234
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0811.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2856
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2431
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2010-2431
http://cups.org/articles.php?L596
http://cups.org/str.php?L3510
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2431
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605397
http://secunia.com/advisories/43521
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2010-2431

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): HIGH
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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