CVE-2002-1371

Cups vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

4.9%

EPSS pct

91th

Exploited

No known

filters/image-gif.c in Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 does not properly check for zero-length GIF images, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via modified chunk headers, as demonstrated by nogif.

Affected vendor

Easy Software Products

Affected product

Cups

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2002-12-26

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2002-1371

Confirm whether Easy Software Products Cups is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2002-1371.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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