THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2004-1269
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2004-1269

Cups vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
9.0%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Easy Software Products
Affected product
Cups
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published
2005-01-10

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 availability.

Its EPSS score of 9.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2004-1269

  • 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-2004-1269.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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