QID 150728

Date Published: 2023-10-26

QID 150728: PaperCut NG/MF Unauthenticated XMLRPC Functionality (CVE-2023-4568)

PaperCut NG/MF is a comprehensive print management system designed to seamlessly monitor and control your resources with easy to use administrative and user tools that can be securely accessed from anywhere on the network though a web browser.

Affected versions of PaperCut NG/MF allows unauthenticated XMLRPC commands to be run by default.

Affected Products:
PaperCut NG/MF version prior to 22.0.12

QID Detection Logic (Unauthenticated):
This QID sends HTTP POST request to "rpc/clients/xmlrpc" endpoint with a specially crafted payload and based on the response determines if the host is vulnerable.

Unauthenticated access to XMLRPC functionality could allow remote attackers to issue XMLRPC calls within PaperCut NG/MF. This could lead to potential security implications depending on the specific calls executed.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 6.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 6.4 severity.
  • Solution
    Customers are advised to apply relevant mitigations mentioned by PaperCut in terms of Unauthenticated XMLRPC Functionality. For more details please refer IP Address Allow-listing.

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