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CVE-2004-1269
lppasswd in CUPS 1.1.22 does not remove the passwd.new file if it encounters a file-size resource limit while writing to passwd.new, which…
Medium5.0EPSS 9.0%
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
lppasswd in CUPS 1.1.22 does not remove the passwd.new file if it encounters a file-size resource limit while writing to passwd.new, which causes subsequent invocations of lppasswd to fail.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 9.0% · top 4.7% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- RHSA-2005:013 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- cups-lppasswd-dos(18608) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9545 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- MDKSA-2005:008 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:053 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-50-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- GLSA-200412-25 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/cups2.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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