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CVE record · CVE-2021-25317

cups: ownership of /var/log/cups allows the lp user to create files as root

CVSS 3.3 LowEPSS 0.0027 · 19th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: suse) at 5 May 2021, 09:35 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS
  • affected cups to before 1.3.9 custom
SUSE SUSE Manager Server 4.0
  • affected cups to before 2.2.7 custom
SUSE SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9
  • affected cups to before 1.7.5 custom
openSUSE openSUSE Leap 15.2
  • affected cups to before 2.2.7 custom
openSUSE Factory
  • affected cups to 2.3.3op2-2.1, inclusive custom
Identifiers
CVE-2021-25317
CNA
suse
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-276
Tags
Published
5 May 2021
Updated
8 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
3.3 Low 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CNA (suse)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0027, the 19th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 5 May 2021. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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