CVE-2001-1593 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in a2ps versions 4.14 and earlier. The tempname_ensure function in lib/routines.h is susceptible to a symlink attack, allowing a local user to modify arbitrary files. With a CVSS score of 2.1, this vulnerability is of low severity, requiring local access with low attack complexity, and primarily impacting integrity (P) rather than confidentiality or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, though it has garnered some community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:a2ps:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:a2ps:4.10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.10.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:a2ps:4.10.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:a2ps:4.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.13CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:a2ps:4.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.