CVE-2012-4510: Cups-Pk-Helper Project Cups-Pk-Helper

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Cups-Pk-Helper Project Cups-Pk-Helper: up to and including 0.2.2; version 0.0.1 only; version 0.0.2 only; version 0.0.3 only; version 0.0.4 only; version 0.1.0 only; …

Published 2012-11-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.