CVE-2026-14544

Publication date 3 July 2026

Last updated 16 July 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A flaw was found in HPLIP (HP Linux Imaging and Printing Software). This vulnerability, an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-8631, may allow a remote attacker to escalate privileges or achieve arbitrary code execution. This can occur through an integer overflow in the hpcups processing path when handling specially crafted print data.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
hplip	26.04 LTS resolute	Not affected
	25.10 questing	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

This CVE appears to be a bad Red Hat fix introduced here: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/hplip/c/cdc920743005275ee03c5547a626cdf81019423c?branch=rawhide Ubuntu is not vulnerable to this issue.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
hplip	Vendor: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/hplip/c/f608b603fdbcb101d3e64b847b965527a12c29cb?branch=f44

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H