OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.16 and prior, CUPS daemon (cupsd) contains an authorization bypass vulnerability due to case-insensitive username comparison during authorization checks. The vulnerability allows an unprivileged user to gain unauthorized access to restricted operations by using a user with a username that differs only in case from an authorized user. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.
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| Description | OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.16 and prior, CUPS daemon (cupsd) contains an authorization bypass vulnerability due to case-insensitive username comparison during authorization checks. The vulnerability allows an unprivileged user to gain unauthorized access to restricted operations by using a user with a username that differs only in case from an authorized user. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches. | |
| Title | OpenPrinting CUPS: Authorization bypass via case-insensitive group-member lookup | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-863 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-04-03T21:11:59.734Z
Reserved: 2026-02-19T17:25:31.100Z
Link: CVE-2026-27447
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-03T22:16:25.193
Modified: 2026-04-03T22:16:25.193
Link: CVE-2026-27447
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