Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-34990

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"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied
patch available.

  - OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In
    versions 2.4.16 and prior, a local unprivileged user can coerce cupsd into authenticating to an attacker-
    controlled localhost IPP service with a reusable Authorization: Local ... token. That token is enough to
    drive /admin/ requests on localhost, and the attacker can combine CUPS-Create-Local-Printer with printer-
    is-shared=true to persist a file:///... queue even though the normal FileDevice policy rejects such URIs.
    Printing to that queue gives an arbitrary root file overwrite; the PoC below uses that primitive to drop a
    sudoers fragment and demonstrate root command execution. At time of publication, there are no publicly
    available patches. (CVE-2026-34990)

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if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

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    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
    "constraints": [
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        "release": "11",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "cups"},
          {"reference": "cups-bsd"},
          {"reference": "cups-client"},
          {"reference": "cups-common"},
          {"reference": "cups-core-drivers"},
          {"reference": "cups-daemon"},
          {"reference": "cups-ipp-utils"},
          {"reference": "cups-ppdc"},
          {"reference": "cups-server-common"},
          {"reference": "libcups2"},
          {"reference": "libcups2-dev"},
          {"reference": "libcupsimage2"},
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        "release": "12",
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          {"reference": "cups-client"},
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          {"reference": "cups-core-drivers"},
          {"reference": "cups-daemon"},
          {"reference": "cups-ipp-utils"},
          {"reference": "cups-ppdc"},
          {"reference": "cups-server-common"},
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var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}