HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2004-0801

Foomatic Filters vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
4.3%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
Unknown vulnerability in foomatic-rip in Foomatic before 3.0.2 allows local users or remote attackers with access to CUPS to execute arbitrary commands.
Affected vendor
Linuxprinting.Org
Affected product
Foomatic Filters
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2004-09-16

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 4.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2004-0801

  • Confirm whether Linuxprinting.Org Foomatic Filters is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2004-0801.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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