CVE-2026-27447

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score
0.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 91% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Published: April 3, 2026 (40 days ago)
Last Modified: April 3, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

Description

OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.16 and prior, CUPS daemon (cupsd) contains an authorization bypass vulnerability due to case-insensitive username comparison during authorization checks. The vulnerability allows an unprivileged user to gain unauthorized access to restricted operations by using a user with a username that differs only in case from an authorized user. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.

CWE

CWE-178

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 github.com 🔗 github.com