CVE-2004-1270

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

lppasswd in CUPS 1.1.22, when run in environments that do not ensure that file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 are open when lppasswd is called, does not verify that the passwd.new file is different from STDERR, which allows local users to control output to passwd.new via certain user input that triggers an error message.

Affected products

Easy Software Products Cups: 1.0.4, 1.0.4_8, 1.1.1, 1.1.4, 1.1.4_2, 1.1.4_3 (+16)
RedHat Fedora Core: core_2.0, core_3.0

References

http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/cups2.txt
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-25.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:008
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-013.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-053.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18609
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11507
https://usn.ubuntu.com/50-1/
http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/cups2.txt
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-25.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:008
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-013.html

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