CVE-2023-6006CWE-250

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

High · published November 14, 2023

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
28.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00360 · 28.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-250 · Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Published
2023-11-14T04:04Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 NOV 04:04Z
    Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
    cvelistv5