HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2004-1125

Cups vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
6.6%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
Buffer overflow in the Gfx::doImage function in Gfx.cc for xpdf 3.00, and other products that share code such as tetex-bin and kpdf in KDE 3.2.x to 3.2.3 and 3.3.x to 3.3.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file that causes the boundaries of a maskColors array to be exceeded.
Affected vendor
Easy Software Products
Affected product
Cups
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2005-01-10

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 6.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2004-1125

  • 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-2004-1125.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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