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CVE-2004-1186

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1186 describes multiple buffer overflows in enscript version 1.6.3, impacting the gnu enscript product. This vulnerability allows remote attackers or local users to trigger a denial of service by crashing the application, with a CVSS score of 5.0 indicating a low-severity issue. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code, and it is not listed in the KEV catalog, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:enscript:1.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0398 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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-2004-1186Low

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/19033
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11134
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