CVE-2026-55453
CUPS ipp backend status-line injection can update queue PPD and lead to conditional RCE as lp via foomatic-rip
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.
| CWE | CWE-74 CWE-77 CWE-78 |
| Vendor | openprinting |
| Product | cups |
| Published | Oct 15, 2026 |
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