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CVE-2026-34978

VendoropenprintingProductcupsDiscoveredApr 3, 2026UpdatedJul 20, 2026

OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.16 and prior, the RSS notifier allows .. path traversal in notify-recipient-uri (e.g., rss:///../job.cache), letting a remote IPP client write RSS XML bytes outside CacheDir/rss (anywhere that is lp-writable). In particular, because CacheDir is group-writable by default (typically root:lp and mode 0770), the notifier (running as lp) can replace root-managed state files via temp-file + rename(). This PoC clobbers CacheDir/job.cache with RSS XML, and after restarting cupsd the scheduler fails to parse the job cache and previously queued jobs disappear. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.

CVSS v3.1
6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.42%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
2
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
0
seen in the same coverage
EPSS Trend
Aug 16, 2026 → Nov 1, 2026
▲ 0.02pp
0.41% → 0.42% over 4 tracked changes
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorNETWORK
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredNONE
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
ConfidentialityNONE
IntegrityLOW
AvailabilityLOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Connections
4 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
Apr 3, 2026
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Jul 20, 2026
Jun 8, 2026
ubuntu.com reports: USN-8405-1: CUPS vulnerabilities
Jun 15, 2026
ubuntu.com reports: USN-8405-2: CUPS regression