CVE-2026-55453

NameCVE-2026-55453
DescriptionOpenPrinting 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1150560

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
cups (PTS)bookworm, bookworm (security)2.4.2-3+deb12u9vulnerable
trixie2.4.10-3+deb13u2vulnerable
trixie (security)2.4.10-3+deb13u1vulnerable
forky2.4.18-1vulnerable
sid2.4.20-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
cupssource(unstable)2.4.20-11150560

Notes

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/security/advisories/GHSA-7hqf-mfhx-7r3v
Fixed by: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/commit/d41cf0616688721e9d435d54118c4c8a36ed596a (v2.4.20)

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