Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-3537

Title: Apple Cups Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-3537.

CWE Category CWE-59

Published Date Jul 23, 2014

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 1.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.05%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-3537: The web interface in CUPS before 1.7.4 allows local users in the lp group to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in /var/cache/cups/rss/.

Impacted Vendors

easy_software_products 1

apple 1

Reference Links

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0313.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0101.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-July/135528.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1388.html http://secunia.com/advisories/59945 http://secunia.com/advisories/60273 http://secunia.com/advisories/60787 http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L724 http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4450 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68788 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030611 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2293-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1115576 https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6535 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0313.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0101.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-July/135528.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1388.html http://secunia.com/advisories/59945 http://secunia.com/advisories/60273 http://secunia.com/advisories/60787 http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L724 http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4450 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68788 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030611 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2293-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1115576 https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6535

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-2014-3537 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 23, 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.