CVE-2024-1223 Improper authorization controls in PaperCut NG/MF

What is CVE-2024-1223?

CVE-2024-1223 is a medium-severity vulnerability in PaperCut NG, PaperCut MF, published on 14 Mar 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

This vulnerability potentially allows unauthorized enumeration of information from the embedded device APIs. An attacker must already have existing knowledge of some combination of valid usernames, device names and an internal system key. For such an attack to be successful the system must be in a specific runtime state.

Weakness: CWE-488

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1223?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Papercut Papercut Mf, Papercut Papercut Ng.

How do I fix CVE-2024-1223?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1223 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2024-1223 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1223 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in PaperCut NG, PaperCut MF

• CVE-2023-27350 PaperCut MF/NG Improper Access Control Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-82078 PaperCut NG/MF Unsafe Reflection Exploited Critical 9.4
• CVE-2026-81578 PaperCut NG/MF Missing Authentication for Critical Function Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2023-2533 PaperCut NG/MF Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2023-27351 PaperCut NG/MF Improper Authentication Exploited High 8.2

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-vfgc-wr54-m4r5.