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high 7.5

CVE-2002-1368 in the critical feed json

Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute…

published 2002-12-20 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-1352

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
15.5%
EPSS 15.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by causing negative arguments to be fed into memcpy() calls via HTTP requests with (1) a negative Content-Length value or (2) a negative length in a chunked transfer encoding.

Patch / fix

  • cups Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.1.18-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2002-1368

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2002-1368 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Linux 7.3 Red Hat Linux 8.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2002:295

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-22106)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

15.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-22106 CUPS 1.1.x - Negative Length HTTP Header remote, 2002-12-19
  • idefense.com http://www.idefense.com/advisory/12.19.02.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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