CVE-2026-34990

HIGHNVD 7.87.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This high-severity CVE scores 7.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.2% (7th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekElevated
7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
51
EG Risk 51/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity78% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
7th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (7.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-18). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

April 3, 2026

Last Modified

July 24, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Jun 11, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github.
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

Local print admin token disclosure using temporary printers · Advisory · OpenPrinting/cups · GitHub

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/security/advisories/GHSA-c54j-2vqw-wpwp

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-34990(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulibcupsimage2-dev (2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.20) @ jammy2026-10-19ubuntu
redhatcups-main-2.4.17-1.hum12026-04-17redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(9 across 9 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.20(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
cups—
  • every version up to 2.4.18-r0: fixed in 2.4.18-r0
—
Alpine:v3.21(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
cups—
  • every version up to 2.4.18-r0: fixed in 2.4.18-r0
—
Alpine:v3.22(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
cups—
  • every version up to 2.4.18-r0: fixed in 2.4.18-r0
—
Alpine:v3.23(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
cups—
  • every version up to 2.4.18-r0: fixed in 2.4.18-r0
—
Alpine:v3.24(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
cups—
  • every version up to 2.4.18-r0: fixed in 2.4.18-r0
—
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
cups2.3.3op2-3+deb11u1 ... 2.4.7-3 (36 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
cups2.4.10-1 ... 2.4.7-3 (27 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
cups2.4.10-3 ... 2.4.18-1 (9 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
cups2.4.10-3, 2.4.10-4, 2.4.14-1, 2.4.15-1, 2.4.16-1
  • every version up to 2.4.17-1: fixed in 2.4.17-1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(1)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 35× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 216 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 117 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-19 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
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  3. 2026-10-19 03:04 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-18 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
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  12. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCVendor advisory
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Publicly available exploits

(5 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (5 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • GitHub PoCNoorkhalel/CVE-2026-34990-CUPS-LPE-PoC
    Published Sep 28, 2026

    Generic PoC for CVE-2026-34990 - CUPS 2.4.16 Local Privilege Escalation via Local token disclosure and arbitrary root file overwrite.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoC0xc4rc3l/CVE-2026-34990-poc
    Published Sep 27, 2026
    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCDENNISDGR/CVE-2026-34990-poc
    Published Sep 27, 2026

    LPE PoC for CVE-2026-34990 using a CUPS root file write vulnerability.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCkhush-613/CVE-2026-34990-poc
    Published Sep 27, 2026
    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCpredyy/CVE-2026-34990
    Published Sep 27, 2026

    CVE-2026-34990 minimal PoC. CUPS <= 2.4.16 local privesc.

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-34990?
CVE-2026-34990 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on April 3, 2026. 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…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-34990 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-34990 was published on April 3, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of July 24, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-34990 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-34990 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (7th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-34990?
CVE-2026-34990 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-34990?
A fix for CVE-2026-34990 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-34990 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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