CPA2026-004: Vulnerability Remediation for My Image Garden for macOS and CUPS Printer Driver for macOS

May 28, 2026

Description
Canon U.S.A., Inc. has recently become aware of a vulnerability involving improper validation of symbolic links in the installers for My Image Garden for macOS and IJ Mac Printer Driver. During the installation of My Image Garden for macOS and IJ Mac Printer Driver, a third party with local access to and login privileges on the PC could potentially exploit this vulnerability by using a specially crafted symbolic link to modify the permissions of files or directories for which they would not normally have authorization.

Affected Software

  • My Image Garden for macOS
    Example of file download name: My Image Garden Ver.x.x.x (Mac)
  • CUPS Printer Driver for macOS
    Example of file download name: series CUPS Printer Driver Ver. xx.xx.x.x (Mac)
    For details of the affected software titles and versions, please refer to your product’s Software & Drivers download page on Canon USA’s website.

 

Mitigation/Remediation
Software and drivers designed to address are available on Canon USA’s website. We recommend that our customers install the latest macOS software for My Image Garden and CUPS Printer Driver.

CVE/CVSS
CVE-2026-6891: Improper handling of symbolic links in the installer of My Image Garden for macOS.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N Base Score: 5.1.
CVE-2026-6892: Improper handling of symbolic links in the installer for IJ Mac Printer Driver

CVE-2026-6892: Improper handling of symbolic links in the installer of the CUPS Printer Driver for macOS.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N Base Score: 5.1.

Canon would like to thank the following researchers for identifying this vulnerability:

  • CVE-2026-6891 and CVE-2026-6892: Jie Wan

 

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