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CVE-2024-1222
Incorrect authorization controls in PaperCut NG/MF APIs
High8.6EPSS 64.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- PaperCut
Description
This allows attackers to use a maliciously formed API request to gain access to an API authorization level with elevated privileges. This applies to a small subset of PaperCut NG/MF API calls.
Timeline
ID reserved
By PaperCut
- 38 days later
· 38 days later
Published
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| PaperCutCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 64.0% · top 0.8% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Weakness
Affected products
PaperCut · PaperCut NG, PaperCut MF
- affected < 23.0.7
- affected < 22.1.5
- affected < 21.2.14
- affected < 20.1.10
References (1)
Sources
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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