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CVE-2004-1185

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1185 describes a critical vulnerability in Enscript version 1.6.3, where the software fails to properly sanitize filenames. This flaw allows remote attackers or local users to execute arbitrary commands by supplying specially crafted filenames. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, enabling complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no authentication required. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness and potential interest among security researchers.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:enscript:1.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:enscript:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:enscript:1.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:enscript:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:enscript:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0448 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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-2004-1185Low

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/19029
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10808
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
Patch
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-040.html
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