CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
Jann Horn discovered that the CUPS lppasswd tool incorrectly read a user configuration file in certain configurations. A local attacker could use this to read sensitive information from certain files, bypassing access restrictions.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2082-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(71990);
script_version("1.12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2013-6891");
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"2082-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10 : cups vulnerability (USN-2082-1)");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated package.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Jann Horn discovered that the CUPS lppasswd tool incorrectly read a
user configuration file in certain configurations. A local attacker
could use this to read sensitive information from certain files,
bypassing access restrictions.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/2082-1/"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected cups-client package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-client");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2014/01/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/01/15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/01/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2014-2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("ubuntu.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! preg(pattern:"^(12\.10|13\.04|13\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.10", pkgname:"cups-client", pkgver:"1.6.1-0ubuntu11.5")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"13.04", pkgname:"cups-client", pkgver:"1.6.2-1ubuntu8")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"13.10", pkgname:"cups-client", pkgver:"1.7.0~rc1-0ubuntu5.2")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_NOTE,
extra : ubuntu_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "cups-client");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | cups-client | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-client |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.10 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 13.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 13.10 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10 |