QID 378740

Date Published: 2023-08-07

QID 378740: PaperCut NG/MF Chained Path Traversal in Authenticated API

PaperCut NG and 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:
PaperCut NG/MF version prior to 22.1.3

QID Detection Logic(Authenticated):
This QID checks for vulnerable version of PaperCut NG/MF by checking the version from registry.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could be potentially leveraged to read and write arbitrary files

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9.8 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • Solution
    Users are advised to upgrade to the latest version of the software, which can be downloaded from the CVE-2023-39143.
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 378740

    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    CVE-2023-39143 URL Logo www.papercut.com/kb/Main/SecurityBulletinJuly2023/