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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-34978 EUVD-2026-18884

OpenPrinting CUPS: Path traversal in RSS notify-recipient-uri enables file write outside CacheDir/rss (and clobbering of job.cache)

Published Apr 3, 2026 · Updated Apr 6, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.16 and prior, the RSS notifier allows .. path traversal in notify-recipient-uri (e.g., rss:///../job.cache), letting a remote IPP client write RSS XML bytes outside CacheDir/rss (anywhere that is lp-writable). In particular, because CacheDir is group-writable by default (typically root:lp and mode 0770), the notifier (running as lp) can replace root-managed state files via temp-file + rename(). This PoC clobbers CacheDir/job.cache with RSS XML, and after restarting cupsd the scheduler fails to parse the job cache and previously queued jobs disappear. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
OpenPrinting cups <= 2.4.16 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 cups 2.4.17-1 —
Debian 13 cups No fix yet —
Debian 12 cups No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cups 2.4.16-1ubuntu1.2 USN-8405-1
Ubuntu 25.10 cups 2.4.12-0ubuntu3.9 USN-8405-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS cups 2.4.7-1.2ubuntu7.13 USN-8405-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS cups 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.20 USN-8405-1
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS cups No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS cups No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS cups No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 cups +7 2.4.17-1.hum1 RHSA-2026:8814
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 cups 2.2.7-150000.3.93.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2732-1
SLES 12 SP5 cups 1.7.5-20.67.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2718-1
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Micro 5.5 cups 2.2.7-150000.3.93.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2732-1
SLE Micro 5.4 cups 2.2.7-150000.3.93.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2732-1
SLE Micro 5.3 cups 2.2.7-150000.3.93.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2732-1
SLE Micro 5.2 cups 2.2.7-150000.3.93.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2732-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed cups 2.4.17-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10589-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 cups 2.4.18-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 cups 2.4.18-r0 —
Alpine v3.22 cups 2.4.18-r0 —
Alpine v3.21 cups 2.4.18-r0 —
Alpine v3.20 cups 2.4.18-r0 —

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 cups +7 1:2.4.16-1.amzn2023.0.3 ALAS2023-2026-1635
Amazon Linux 2 cups +6 1:1.6.3-51.amzn2.0.9 ALAS2-2026-3279

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 cups 2.4.17-1 —

Advisories 8

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