CVE-2010-2431: Apple Cups

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The cupsFileOpen function in CUPS before 1.4.4 allows local users, with lp group membership, to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /var/cache/cups/remote.cache or (2) /var/cache/cups/job.cache file.

Affected products

• Apple Cups: up to and including 1.4.3; version 1.1 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only; version 1.1.3 only; version 1.1.4 only; …

Published 2010-06-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.