Vulnerability in OpenPrinting CUPS (CVE-2026-107888)
Summary
Vulnerability in OpenPrinting CUPS (CVE-2026-107888). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
OpenPrinting CUPS before 2.4.20 contains a NULL pointer dereference in cupsdCheckJobs() when a job marked job-held-on-create refers to a temporary printer that has been automatically deleted. Temporary-printer cleanup can remove the destination without canceling its held jobs, and the scheduler dereferences the NULL result of cupsdFindDest() while checking holding_new_jobs. This terminates cupsd and interrupts all queues managed by that process. In some plausible scenarios, an unprivileged submission can trigger this.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-107888 has been found in OpenPrinting CUPS.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.1/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "OpenPrinting CUPS CVE-2026-107888" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-107888 (OpenPrinting CUPS) — CWE-476 / CVSS v3 5.1
Attack vector: local / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-476) exists in OpenPrinting CUPS.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of OpenPrinting CUPS.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.1/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで OpenPrinting CUPS を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。
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2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
References
- web cve@mitre.org
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web github.com