CVE-2004-1268: Easy Software Products Cups

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

lppasswd in CUPS 1.1.22 ignores write errors when modifying the CUPS passwd file, which allows local users to corrupt the file by filling the associated file system and triggering the write errors.

Affected products

• Easy Software Products Cups: version 1.0.4 only; version 1.0.4_8 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.4 only; version 1.1.4_2 only; version 1.1.4_3 only; …
• Red Hat Fedora Core: version core_2.0 only; version core_3.0 only

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