PaperCut warns that a zero-day in NG and MF is being exploited. The company already release emergency patches to address it.
PaperCut Software warns that attackers are actively exploiting a zero-day in its NG and MF print management products. The flaw has no CVE yet, and the company has not released technical details.
PaperCut issued emergency patches on Friday and urged customers to install them immediately. It also recommends disconnecting application servers from the internet and limiting access to trusted IP addresses.
“If your PaperCut NG/MF Application Server is accessible from the public internet, immediately restrict web access to trusted IP addresses only (e.g. internal IP addresses).” states the advisory. “Use firewall rules, network access controls, or equivalent measures to ensure the PaperCut server’s web interfaces cannot be reached from untrusted internet addresses. Take this action now, even if you have not observed suspicious activity.”
The company confirmed incidents affecting customers and said its investigation is still underway.
“PaperCut Software security response team is investigating active exploitation of a vulnerability affecting PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF.” reads the advisory. “We are aware of confirmed customer incidents and are treating this matter with the highest priority. Our investigation is ongoing. We will update this security bulletin as verified information becomes available, including indicators of compromise and remediation guidance.”
PaperCut has not yet disclosed details about the vulnerability, the attack method, or the attackers behind the campaign.
So far, the company has identified several indicators of compromise:
- Intrusion-detection, endpoint-security, or network-monitoring tools may flag suspicious activity involving the PaperCut Application Server, especially activity linked to
pc-app.exe. - Attackers may delete, truncate, or alter PaperCut
server.logfiles to hide their activity. - The
server.logfile may contain these entries:ERROR No suitable driver found for jdbc:no:xERROR DatabaseUtils - Database error looking up cardID: VALUES CAST
Users running PaperCut should check their systems for these signs of compromise.
In May 2023, Microsoft warned that Iran-linked APT groups were exploiting another flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-27350, in attacks against PaperCut MF/NG print management servers. The CVE-2023-27350 flaw is a PaperCut MF/NG Improper Access Control Vulnerability. PaperCut MF/NG contains an improper access control vulnerability within the SetupCompleted class that allows authentication bypass and code execution in the context of SYSTEM.
In April 2023, Microsoft linked the attacks exploiting the CVE-2023-27350 and CVE-2023-27351 vulnerabilities in print management software PaperCut to a financially motivated threat actor tracked as Lace Tempest (formerly DEV-0950). The group is known to be an affiliate of the Clop ransomware RaaS affiliate, it has been linked to GoAnywhere attacks and Raspberry Robin infection. Since April 13, 2023, Lace Tempest added the PaperCut exploits to its arsenal.
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