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HIGH

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Published Nov 14, 2023

Description

This vulnerability potentially allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of PaperCut NG. An attacker must have local write access to the C Drive. In addition, Print Archiving must be enabled or the attacker needs to encounter a misconfigured system. This vulnerability does not apply to PaperCut NG installs that have Print Archiving enabled and configured as per the recommended set up procedure. This specific flaw exists within the pc-pdl-to-image process. The process loads an executable from an unsecured location. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of SYSTEM

Note: This CVE has been rescored with a "Privileges Required (PR)" rating of low, and “Attack Complexity (AC)” rating of low, reflecting the worst-case scenario where an Administrator has granted local login access to standard network users on the host server.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

References (3)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner PaperCut
Published Nov 14, 2023
Updated Jan 8, 2025
Reserved Nov 8, 2023
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Jan 30, 2024
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner PaperCut
Published Nov 14, 2023
Updated Jan 8, 2025
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2023-58273