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● CVE — High

CVE-2026-34990

VendoropenprintingProductcupsDiscoveredApr 3, 2026UpdatedJul 24, 2026

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.

CVSS v3.1
7.8 HIGH
EPSS
0.29%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
3
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
0
seen in the same coverage
EPSS Trend
Aug 16, 2026 → Nov 1, 2026
● 0.01pp
0.29% → 0.29% over 4 tracked changes
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorLOCAL
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredLOW
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
ConfidentialityHIGH
IntegrityHIGH
AvailabilityHIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Connections
5 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
Apr 3, 2026
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Jul 24, 2026
Apr 10, 2026
acn.gov.it reports: CUPS: disponibili PoC per lo sfruttamento di due vulnerabilità
Jun 8, 2026
ubuntu.com reports: USN-8405-1: CUPS vulnerabilities
Jun 15, 2026
ubuntu.com reports: USN-8405-2: CUPS regression