CVE-2005-2525

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.015 · 75 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.54% (75th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

CUPS in Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.2 does not properly close file descriptors when handling multiple simultaneous print jobs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (printing halt).

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-362USLLM-inferredCWE-400USLLM-inferred

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
apple mac os x= 10.3.9nvdUScpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apple mac os x= 10.4.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
easy software products cups= 1.2.10nvdUScpe:2.3:a:easy_software_products:cups:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2005-08-19modified 2026-06-16

references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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