Privilege escalation vulnerability in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) - CVE-2012-6108 (rpm)| ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:61206 | Date: (C)2020-02-10 (M)2022-10-10 |
| Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: unix |
The host is installed with hplip before 3.13.2 and is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A flaw is present in the application, which fails to handle a permissions issue for /var/log/hp and /var/log/hp/tmp. Successful exploitation could allow attackers to delete log files via standard filesystem operations.
