CVE-2004-1269 EXPLOIT
5.0
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 9% (pctl 95)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| EPSS | 8.95% — more likely to be exploited than 95% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2005-01-10 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (2)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| easy software products | cups |
| redhat | fedora core |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Easy Software Products LPPassWd 1.1.22 - Resource Limit Denial of Service | 2004-12-11 |
References
- http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/cups2.txt
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-25.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:008
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-013.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-053.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18608
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9545
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/50-1/
- http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/cups2.txt
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-25.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:008
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-013.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-053.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18608
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9545
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/50-1/
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