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CVE-2014-5031

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-5031 describes a vulnerability in the web interface of CUPS versions prior to 2.0, affecting products like Apple CUPS and Canonical Ubuntu Linux. This flaw allows remote attackers to access sensitive information due to the web interface failing to verify world-readable file permissions. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), it indicates a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring no authentication, leading to partial confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.7.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups:1.7:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups:1.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups:1.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups:1.7.1:b1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.91%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0291 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media 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.

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-2014-5031Moderate

cups: world-readable permissions

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