CVE-2022-26691: Apple Cups

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2022-003 Catalina, macOS Monterey 12.3, macOS Big Sur 11.6.5. An application may be able to gain elevated privileges.

Affected products

• Apple Cups: before 499.4 (fixed in 499.4)
• Apple Mac OS X: from 10.15, before 10.15.7 (fixed in 10.15.7); version 10.15.7 only
• Apple macOS: from 11.0, before 11.6.5 (fixed in 11.6.5); after 12.0.0, before 12.3 (fixed in 12.3)
• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 35 only; version 36 only
• Openprinting Cups: before 2.4.2 (fixed in 2.4.2)

Published 2022-05-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.