Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-5029

Title: Apple Cups Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-5029.

CWE Category CWE-59

Published Date Jul 29, 2014

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 1.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.05%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-5029: The web interface in CUPS 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/ and language[0] set to null. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-3537.

Impacted Vendors

apple 1

easy_software_products 1

Reference Links

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0313.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1388.html http://secunia.com/advisories/60509 http://secunia.com/advisories/60787 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2990 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/22/13 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/22/2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2341-1 https://cups.org/str.php?L4455 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0313.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1388.html http://secunia.com/advisories/60509 http://secunia.com/advisories/60787 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2990 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/22/13 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/22/2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2341-1 https://cups.org/str.php?L4455

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

1.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-5029 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 29, 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:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.