Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2012-4510 First vendor Publication 2012-11-19
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2013-12-05

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

cups-pk-helper before 0.2.3 does not properly wrap the (1) cupsGetFile and (2) cupsPutFile function calls, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read or overwrite sensitive files using CUPS resources.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4510

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19974
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19974
Title: DSA-2562-1 cups-pk-helper - privilege escalation
Description: cups-pk-helper, a PolicyKit helper to configure CUPS with fine-grained privileges, wraps CUPS function calls in an insecure way. This could lead to uploading sensitive data to a CUPS resource, or overwriting specific files with the content of a CUPS resource. The user would have to explicitly approve the action.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2562-1
CVE-2012-4510
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
 Product(s): cups-pk-helper
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 10

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-12-14 Name : Fedora Update for cups-pk-helper FEDORA-2012-18927
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_18927_cups-pk-helper_fc16.nasl
2012-12-11 Name : Fedora Update for cups-pk-helper FEDORA-2012-18950
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_18950_cups-pk-helper_fc17.nasl
2012-10-29 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2562-1 (cups-pk-helper)
File : nvt/deb_2562_1.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-04-20 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-069.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-12 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-18927.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-11 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-17907.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-11 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-18950.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-10-24 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2562.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2562
MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:069
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/12/2

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2013-12-05 17:19:18
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2012-12-29 00:19:01
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2012-11-30 21:19:45
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2012-11-20 21:20:46
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2012-11-20 13:22:36
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