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CVE-2004-1268

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1268 describes a vulnerability in lppasswd within CUPS 1.1.22, affecting products like Easy Software Products CUPS and Red Hat Fedora Core. This flaw allows local users to corrupt the CUPS password file by intentionally filling the file system, causing write errors that lppasswd fails to handle. With a low CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), it indicates a local attack vector with low complexity, resulting in partial integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not a widely targeted vulnerability.

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

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
37.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0045 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 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-2004-1268Important

security flaw

Dec 15, 2004

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/18606
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10398
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