CVE-2012-5519

Publication date

2012-11-20 00:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

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.