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Low · 3.3 CVE-2026-55453 EUVD-2026-102207

CUPS ipp backend status-line injection can update queue PPD and lead to conditional RCE as lp via foomatic-rip

Published Oct 15, 2026 · Updated Oct 16, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Prior to 2.4.20, the backend/ipp.c quote_string() function preserves carriage-return and line-feed characters in a remote printer-controlled marker-message before report_attr() writes the value to the scheduler status stream. The scheduler can parse an injected newline as a separate PPD: control line and persist an attacker-selected PPD keyword. The reporter demonstrated that a later print job on a Foomatic-backed queue could consume an injected FoomaticRIPCommandLine value and execute in the filter context as lp. This issue is fixed in version 2.4.20.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
OpenPrinting cups < 2.4.20 —

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 2.4.20-1 —
Debian 13 cups No fix yet —
Debian 12 cups No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 cups No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cups No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS cups No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS cups No fix yet —
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 2.4.19-4.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:84421
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed cups 2.4.20-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12192-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 cups +7 1:2.4.20-1.amzn2023.0.1 ALAS2023-2026-3415

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 cups No fix yet —

Advisories 4

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