CVE-2023-6006

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Nov 14, 2023
Updated
Jan 8, 2025
Reserved
Nov 8, 2023

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HPaperCut

Weaknesses

  • CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Affected Products

ProductVersions
PaperCut NG, PaperCut MFPaperCut
  • before 23.0.0Affectedfrom 23.0.0Not affected

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