CVE 5 MEDIUM

OpenPrinting CUPS: Local print admin token disclosure using temporary printers_CVE-2026-34990

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MEDIUM
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L

Description

OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.16 and prior, a local unprivileged user can coerce cupsd into authenticating to an attacker-controlled localhost IPP service with a reusable Authorization: Local ... token. That token is enough to drive /admin/ requests on localhost, and the attacker can combine CUPS-Create-Local-Printer with printer-is-shared=true to persist a file:///... queue even though the normal FileDevice policy rejects such URIs. Printing to that queue gives an arbitrary root file overwrite; the PoC below uses that primitive to drop a sudoers fragment and demonstrate root command execution. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-34990
Source GitHub_M
Published Apr 3, 2026 at 21:14
Modified Apr 6, 2026 at 18:52

Affected Product

Vendor OpenPrinting
Product cups
Version <= 2.4.16
Affected Versions OpenPrinting cups <= 2.4.16

CWE Classification

References

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