CVE-2026-34980
OpenPrinting CUPS vulnerability analysis and mitigation

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.


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Related OpenPrinting CUPS vulnerabilities:

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CISA KEV exploit

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CVE-2026-34978MEDIUM6.5
  • OpenPrinting CUPSOpenPrinting CUPS
  • cpe:2.3:a:openprinting:cups
NoYesApr 03, 2026
CVE-2026-34980MEDIUM6.1
  • OpenPrinting CUPSOpenPrinting CUPS
  • cups
NoYesApr 03, 2026
CVE-2026-34979MEDIUM5.3
  • OpenPrinting CUPSOpenPrinting CUPS
  • cups-filesystem
NoYesApr 03, 2026
CVE-2026-34990MEDIUM5
  • OpenPrinting CUPSOpenPrinting CUPS
  • cups-filesystem
NoNoApr 03, 2026
CVE-2026-27447MEDIUM4.8
  • OpenPrinting CUPSOpenPrinting CUPS
  • cups
NoYesApr 03, 2026

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