CVE-2021-25317

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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. 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{"acknowledgement": "Red Hat would like to thank Matthias Gerstner for reporting this issue.", "bugzilla": {"description": "cups: insecure permissions of /var/log/cups allows for symlink attacks", "id": "1949119", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1949119"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "2.0", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N", "status": "draft"}, "cwe": "CWE-276->CWE-59", "details": ["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.", "It was found that some Linux vendors may assign the ownership of the /var/log/cups directory to the `lp` user. This could allow an attacker with such privileges to create empty files in arbitrary locations, or to force arbitrary files to be opened and closed, using a symlink attack. This has a low impact on the integrity of the system."], "name": "CVE-2021-25317", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "cups", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Fix deferred", "package_name": "cups", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Fix deferred", "package_name": "cups", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Fix deferred", "package_name": "cups", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}], "public_date": "2021-04-29T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-25317\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25317"], "statement": "This issue does not affect the upstream CUPS, only the CUPS versions as packaged by some OS vendors.", "threat_severity": "Low"}

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