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.
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Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:15:00 +0000
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | OpenPrinting CUPS: Local print admin token disclosure using temporary printers | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-287 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-04-03T21:14:09.616Z
Reserved: 2026-03-31T19:38:31.618Z
Link: CVE-2026-34990
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-03T22:16:27.400
Modified: 2026-04-03T22:16:27.400
Link: CVE-2026-34990
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