CVE-2012-5519

Exp

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.

Published: 2012-11-20 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2012-5519 is rated High Exploit Risk (71.7/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 7.19%, 92th percentile). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2012-5519

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-5519

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-31 11.38% 7.19% -4.18%
2 2026-05-13 10.23% 11.38% +1.15%
3 2025-12-30 — 10.23% —

Full EPSS history (23 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-5519

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.2 2.0 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
 3.9 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-5519

OS Trackers for CVE-2012-5519

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2012-5519 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (cups), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5519
gentoo normal CVE-2012-5519: 1 GLSA(s) (201404-01), 1 atom(s) (net-print/cups); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2012-5519
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5519
suse high CVE-2012-5519 severity important: SUSE including 399 source package names (amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20210304-hvm-ssd-x86_64, amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20220127-hvm-ssd-x86_64, …), 569 product×package rows across 100 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-BYOS, … (100 product lines)): Fixed 360, Known Affected 157, Known Not Affected 52. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5519/
ubuntu medium CVE-2012-5519 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (cups, cupsys), 12 status rows across 6 suites (hardy, lucid, oneiric, precise, quantal, upstream): DNE 5, released 5, needs-triage 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-5519

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-5519

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
apple cups 1.4.4 cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups:1.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-5519

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