{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2014-07-14T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "cups: insufficient checking leads to privilege escalation",
    "id" : "1115576",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1115576"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "5.0",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:P/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-59",
  "details" : [ "The web interface in CUPS before 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/.", "It was discovered that CUPS allowed certain users to create symbolic links in certain directories under /var/cache/cups/. A local user with the 'lp' group privileges could use this flaw to read the contents of arbitrary files on the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system." ],
  "statement" : "This issue is not planned to be fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as it is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle, https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/",
  "acknowledgement" : "This issue was discovered by Francisco Alonso (Red Hat Security Response Team).",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2014-10-13T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2014:1388",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "cups-1:1.4.2-67.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2015-03-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHBA-2015:0386",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "cups-1:1.6.3-17.el7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "cups",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3537\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3537" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2014-3537",
  "csaw" : false
}