CVE-2026-41079
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Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-41079, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-04-24

Last updated on: 2026-04-27

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description

OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Prior to 2.4.17, a network-adjacent attacker can send a crafted SNMP response to the CUPS SNMP backend that causes an out-of-bounds read of up to 176 bytes past a stack buffer. The leaked memory is converted from UTF-16 to UTF-8 and stored as printer supply description strings, which are subsequently visible to authenticated users via IPP Get-Printer-Attributes responses and the CUPS web interface. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.4.17.

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Published
2026-04-24
Last Modified
2026-04-27
Generated
2026-07-06
EPSS Evaluated
2026-07-05
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Vendor Product Version / Range
openprinting cups to 2.4.17 (exc)

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CWE ID Description
CWE-200 The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.
CWE-125 The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

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