# CVE-2023-2508: CSRF in PaperCutNG Mobility Print leads to sophisticated phishing

> An unauthenticated attacker can trick an administrator into changing printer discovery settings via CSRF, potentially enabling phishing or unauthorized configuration changes.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 20 Sep 2023
- **Updated:** 24 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-9q29-w6f4-hc36

## What is CVE-2023-2508?

CVE-2023-2508 is a medium-severity vulnerability in PaperCut MF/NG Mobility Print, published on 20 Sep 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The `PaperCutNG Mobility Print` version 1.0.3512 application allows an

unauthenticated attacker to perform a CSRF attack on an instance

administrator to configure the clients host (in the "configure printer

discovery" section). This is possible because the application has no

protections against CSRF attacks, like Anti-CSRF tokens, header origin

validation, samesite cookies, etc.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-2508?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Papercut Mobility Print Server.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-2508?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-2508 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-2508 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-2508 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-2508 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-2508 is a medium-severity vulnerability in PaperCut MF/NG Mobility Print, published on 20 Sep 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-2508 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: PaperCut MF/NG Mobility Print. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-2508/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-2508/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-2508
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2508
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-2508

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-2508/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.