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CVE-2026-34980

6.1 mediumEPSS 1.7%

Medium (6.1) in openprinting cups. EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.16 and prior, in a network-exposed cupsd with a shared target queue, an unauthorized client can send a Print-Job to that shared PostScript queue without authentication. The server accepts a page-border value supplied as textWithoutLanguage, preserves an embedded newline through option escaping and reparse, and then reparses the resulting second-line PPD: text as a trusted scheduler control record. A follow-up raw print job can therefore make the server execute an attacker-chosen existing binary such as /usr/bin/vim as lp. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

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

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 76% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-20
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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