Vulnerability in Easy Software Products Cups
CVE-2004-1269
lppasswd in CUPS 1.1.22 does not remove the passwd.new file if it encounters a file-size resource limit while writing to passwd.new, which causes subsequent invocations of lppasswd to fail.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.090 (95.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 95.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.090 · newest: 0.090 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Easy Software Products Cups — versions 1.0.4, 1.0.4_8, 1.1.1
- Red Hat Fedora Core — versions core_2.0, core_3.0
References
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-013.html (vendor-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18608 (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9545 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-053.html (vendor-advisory)
- usn.ubuntu.com/50-1/ (vendor-advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-25.xml (vendor-advisory)
- tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/cups2.txt (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)