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CVE-2004-1184

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-01-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The EPSF pipe support in enscript 1.6.3 allows remote attackers or local users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.

Affected products

• GNU Enscript: 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3 (+1)
• RedHat Fedora Core: core_2.0, core_3.0
• Sgi Propack: 3.0
• Suse Linux: 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 4.2, 4.3 (+26)

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35074
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1012965
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-654
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-03.xml
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:033
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-040.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419768/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435199/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12329
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html

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