CVE-2012-6108
HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) before 3.13.2 uses world-writable permissions for /var/log/hp and /var/log/hp/tmp, which allows local users to delete log files via standard filesystem operations.
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 45% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-264
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- hp:linux_imaging_and_printing_project
References
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/files/hplip/3.13.2/hplip-3.13.2.tar.gz/download
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/1016507/comments/1
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/1016507/comments/6
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894283
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/files/hplip/3.13.2/hplip-3.13.2.tar.gz/download