What is CVE-2024-8405?

CVE-2024-8405 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Papercut Papercut_mf, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-09-26.

How severe is CVE-2024-8405?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-8405 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

RCE in Papercut Papercut_mf

CVE-2024-8405

An arbitrary file creation vulnerability exists in PaperCut NG/MF that only affects Windows servers with Web Print enabled. This specific flaw exists within the web-print.exe process, which can incorrectly create files that don’t exist whe…

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.002 (15.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

eb41dac7-0af8-4f84-9f6d-0272772514f4 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-8405?: CVE-2024-8405 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Papercut Papercut_mf, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-09-26.
How severe is CVE-2024-8405?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-8405 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.