CVE-2026-34980

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score
0.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 88% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Adjacent
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
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, 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.

CWE

CWE-78

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

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