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wid-sec-w-2026-0976  ·  Published 2026-04-06  ·  View on BSI CERT-Bund ↗

CUPS: Vulnerability allows Ausführen from beliebigem Programmcode with Administratorrechten

CVSS 5.0 MEDIUM

Risk Summary

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.

CVEs (1)

Affected Vendors

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