OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.8 and earlier, when starting the cupsd server with a Listen configuration item pointing to a symbolic link, the cupsd process can be caused to perform an arbitrary chmod of the provided argument, providing world-writable access to the target. Given that cupsd is often running as root, this can result in the change of permission of any user or system files to be world writable. Given the aforementioned Ubuntu AppArmor context, on such systems this vulnerability is limited to those files modifiable by the cupsd process. In that specific case it was found to be possible to turn the configuration of the Listen argument into full control over the cupsd.conf and cups-files.conf configuration files. By later setting the User and Group arguments in cups-files.conf, and printing with a printer configured by PPD with a `FoomaticRIPCommandLine` argument, arbitrary user and group (not root) command execution could be achieved, which can further be used on Ubuntu systems to achieve full root command execution. Commit ff1f8a623e090dee8a8aadf12a6a4b25efac143d contains a patch for the issue.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2024-35235 is rated High Exploit Risk (62.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.10%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ | |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-01-04 | 3.36% | 3.10% | -0.26% |
| 2 | 2025-10-31 | 2.50% | 3.36% | +0.86% |
| 3 | 2025-10-17 | — | 2.50% | — |
Full EPSS history (23 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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0.8 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
| 6.7 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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0.8 | 5.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
alpine
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— | CVE-2024-35235: 1 source package rows (cups); 56 state rows across 7 repos (3.17-main, 3.18-main, 3.19-main, 3.20-main, 3.21-main, 3.22-main, edge-main); fixed 7, open 49. | https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-35235 |
debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2024-35235 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (cups), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-35235 |
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-35235 |
suse
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high | CVE-2024-35235 severity important: SUSE including 300 source package names (6.0-baremetal:glibc-2.38-slfo.1.1_4.1, 6.0-base:glibc-2.38-slfo.1.1_4.1, …), 905 product×package rows across 241 product lines (Container rancher/elemental-channel/sl-micro, Container suse/kiosk/firefox-esr, … (241 product lines)): Fixed 705, Known Affected 200. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-35235/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2024-35235 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (cups), 7 status rows across 7 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, mantic, noble, upstream, xenial): released 7. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-35235 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| openprinting | cups | <= 2.4.8 | cpe:2.3:a:openprinting:cups:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| debian | debian_linux | 10.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |