CVE-2012-6108: HP Linux Imaging And Printing Project

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) before 3.13.2 uses world-writable permissions for /var/log/hp and /var/log/hp/tmp, which allows local users to delete log files via standard filesystem operations.

Affected products

• HP Linux Imaging And Printing Project: up to and including 3.13.1; version 1.0 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.7.10 only; version 3.9.2 only; version 3.9.4 only; …

Published 2014-02-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.