{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2026-04-03T21:14:09Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "cups: OpenPrinting CUPS: Privilege escalation via arbitrary file overwrite due to coerced authentication",
    "id" : "2454947",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2454947"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.2",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-73",
  "details" : [ "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.", "A flaw was found in OpenPrinting CUPS. A local unprivileged user can exploit this vulnerability by coercing the `cupsd` service to authenticate to an attacker-controlled Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) service. This allows the user to create a persistent printer queue that can overwrite arbitrary files with root privileges. Successful exploitation can lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary root command execution." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Hardened Images",
    "release_date" : "2026-04-17T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:8814",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1",
    "package" : "cups-main-2.4.17-1.hum1"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "cups",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "cups",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "cups",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "cups",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "cups",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "rhcos",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-34990\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-34990\nhttps://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/security/advisories/GHSA-c54j-2vqw-wpwp" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2026-34990",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}