# CVE-2026-55453: CUPS ipp backend status-line injection can update queue PPD and lead to conditional RCE as lp via foomatic-rip

- Also known as: GHSA-7HQF-MFHX-7R3V
- Severity: CVSS 3.3 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.4.20
- Published: 2026-10-15 · Updated: 2026-10-16

## Affected

- OpenPrinting cups: fixed in 2.4.20

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on OpenPrinting cups, upgrade to a fixed version (2.4.20) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/security/advisories/GHSA-7hqf-mfhx-7r3v
- https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/commit/806e1b483096c51d59432468f4afdd7387d81dd7
- https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/commit/d41cf0616688721e9d435d54118c4c8a36ed596a
- https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/releases/tag/v2.4.20

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