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Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred","Exploit","Patch","evidence","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6891"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r8jg-q736-v263"},{"url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6891","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0021.html","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2082-1/","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12257","tags":["report"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2013-6891","description":"lppasswd in CUPS before 1.7.1, when running with setuid privileges, allows local users to read portions of arbitrary files via a modified HOME environment variable and a symlink attack involving 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