CVE-2023-6006

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

High7.8EPSS 0.36%

Published: 14 Nov 2023
Updated: 8 Jan 2025
Reserved: 8 Nov 2023
Assigned by: PaperCut

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

CVSS scores of CVE-2023-6006, by who scored it
Scored by	CVSS	Score	Vector
PaperCutCNA (assigner)	3.1	High7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVDNVD · Modified	3.1	Medium6.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days): 0.36% · top 70% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC: Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-250 and its CVEs

Affected products

PaperCut · PaperCut NG, PaperCut MF
- affected < 23.0.0

References (2)

Sources

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Record last updated 8 Jan 2025, 16:44 UTC.