Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-55480
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products3
- azl3 cups 2.4.19-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 cups 2.4.19-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl4 cups 1:2.4.19-7.azl4 on Azure Linux 4.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
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| — | Security Update | — |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-55480
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.7 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Prior to 2.4.20, copy_model() in scheduler/ipp.c creates a predictable TempDir/<connection-number>.ppd path in an lp-group-writable directory and opens it as root without O_EXCL or O_NOFOLLOW. Exploitation requires an lp-group process able to write that directory to predict the connection-derived name and plant a symlink before the root open, while a privileged add-printer or modify-printer operation using a model PPD triggers copy_model(). The reporter treats an existing lp foothold and the privileged operation as distinct prerequisites, while the maintainer assesses high privileges because installing the relevant filter or administering the printer requires root or print-administrator access. If the race succeeds, the root scheduler follows the symlink and truncates or overwrites a root-writable target with generated PPD data, compromising file integrity or availability. This issue is fixed in version 2.4.20.
Published by GitHub, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-55480, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).