CVE-2004-1170: GNU a2ps

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

a2ps 4.13 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the filename.

Affected products

• GNU a2ps: version 4.13 only; version 4.13b only
• Sun Java Desktop System: version 2.0 only; version 2003 only
• Suse Suse Linux: version 8 only; version 8.1 only; version 8.2 only; version 9.0 only; version 9.1 only

Published 2005-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.