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CVE-2014-5029

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-5029 is a local file disclosure vulnerability in the web interface of CUPS 1.7.4, affecting Apple and Canonical Ubuntu Linux distributions. An authenticated local attacker in the 'lp' group can read arbitrary files by exploiting a symlink attack within the /var/cache/cups/rss/ directory. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 1.5, indicating low attack complexity and partial confidentiality impact, with no integrity or availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.7.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups:1.7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

1.5LOW

AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
2.7
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
24.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 223 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: cups-1:1.4.2-67.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: cups-1:1.6.3-17.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: cups

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-5029Moderate

cups: Incomplete fix for CVE-2014-3537

Jul 22, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0313.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1388.html
cups.org / str.php
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/60509
secunia.com / advisories/60787
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2990
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/07/22/13
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/07/22/2
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2341-1