Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-6891

Title: Apple Cups

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-6891.

CWE Category CWE-59

Published Date Jan 26, 2014

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 1.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.05%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-6891: lppasswd in CUPS before 1.7.1, when running with setuid privileges, allows local users to read portions of arbitrary files via a modified HOME environment variable and a symlink attack involving .cups/client.conf.

Impacted Vendors

easy_software_products 1

apple 1

Reference Links

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0021.html http://secunia.com/advisories/56531 http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L704 http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:015 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2082-1 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0021.html http://secunia.com/advisories/56531 http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L704 http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:015 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2082-1

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

1.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-6891 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 26, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.