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Red Hat: CVE-2021-25317: cups: insecure permissions of /var/log/cups allows for symlink attacks

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Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 5, 2021
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

A Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in the packaging of cups of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS, SUSE Manager Server 4.0, SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9; openSUSE Leap 15.2, Factory allows local attackers with control of the lp users to create files as root with 0644 permissions without the ability to set the content. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS cups versions prior to 1.3.9. SUSE Manager Server 4.0 cups versions prior to 2.2.7. SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 cups versions prior to 1.7.5. openSUSE Leap 15.2 cups versions prior to 2.2.7. openSUSE Factory cups version 2.3.3op2-2.1 and prior versions.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package

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