Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-31046

Medium

Published: 19 October 2023

Published
19 October 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0019 41.3th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-31046 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Papercut Papercut Mf. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 41.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A Path Traversal vulnerability exists in PaperCut NG before 22.1.1 and PaperCut MF before 22.1.1. Under specific conditions, this could potentially allow an authenticated attacker to achieve read-only access to the server's filesystem, because requests beginning with "GET /ui/static/..//.." reach…

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getStaticContent in UIContentResource.class in the static-content-files servlet.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

papercut
papercut mf
≤ 22.1.1
papercut
papercut ng
≤ 22.1.1

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

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