CVE-2012-5519: Apple Cups

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CUPS 1.4.4, when running in certain Linux distributions such as Debian GNU/Linux, stores the web interface administrator key in /var/run/cups/certs/0 using certain permissions, which allows local users in the lpadmin group to read or write arbitrary files as root by leveraging the web interface.

Affected products

• Apple Cups: version 1.4.4 only

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