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CVE-2004-1184

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CVE-2004-1184 describes a command injection vulnerability in enscript 1.6.3's EPSF pipe support, affecting GNU, Red Hat, SGI, and SUSE systems. This local or remote vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 4.6, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands due to improper handling of shell metacharacters, leading to potential compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:enscript:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:enscript:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:enscript:1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:enscript:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:enscript:1.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0118 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 3,049 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: enscript-0:1.6.1-24.4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: enscript-0:1.6.1-28.3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-1184Low

security flaw

Jan 20, 2005

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
secunia.com / advisories/35074
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/19012
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9658
support.apple.com / kb/HT3549
usn.ubuntu.com / 68-1
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-654
PatchVendor Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-03.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-040.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/419768/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/435199/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/12329
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html
US Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1297