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CVE-2004-1269

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1269 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in lppasswd within CUPS 1.1.22, affecting Easy Software Products and Red Hat Fedora Core. The flaw occurs when lppasswd fails to remove a temporary passwd.new file after encountering a file-size resource limit, preventing subsequent password changes. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a network-exploitable, low-complexity attack leading to partial availability impact. While not observed in active exploitation (KEV), public exploit code exists via ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:easy_software_products:cups:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.4_8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:easy_software_products:cups:1.0.4_8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:easy_software_products:cups:1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:easy_software_products:cups:1.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.4_2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:easy_software_products:cups:1.1.4_2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
8.95%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-25012 · Dec 11, 2004
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0895 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 23,690 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: cups-1:1.1.17-13.3.22
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: cups-1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-1269Important

security flaw

Dec 15, 2004

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/18608
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9545
usn.ubuntu.com / 50-1
tigger.uic.edu / ~jlongs2/holes/cups2.txt
ExploitVendor Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-25.xml
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-013.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-053.html