CVE-2023-27350 (GCVE-0-2023-27350)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-04-20 00:00 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:05- CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
CISA
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
Exploited: Yes
Timestamps
Scope
Evidence
Type: Vendor Report
Signal: Successful Exploitation
Confidence: 80%
Source: cisa-kev
Details
| Cwes | CWE-284 |
|---|---|
| Feed | CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog |
| Product | MF/NG |
| Due Date | 2023-05-12 |
| Date Added | 2023-04-21 |
| Vendorproject | PaperCut |
| Vulnerabilityname | PaperCut MF/NG Improper Access Control Vulnerability |
| Knownransomwarecampaignuse | Known |
References
Previdian
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
Exploited: Yes
Timestamps
Scope
Evidence
Type: Public Report
Signal: Confirmed Compromise
Confidence: 70%
Source: previdian
Details
| Feed | Previdian (previdian.com) |
|---|---|
| Title | This vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass authentication on affected installations of PaperCut NG 22.0.5 (Build 63914). Authentication... |
| Cve Id | CVE-2023-27350 |
| Vendor | PaperCut |
| Ghsa Id | None |
| Product | NG |
| Added Date | 2023-04-21T00:00:00.000Z |
| Cvss Score | 9.8 |
| Epss Score | 0.99999 |
| Previous Ids | |
| Cvss Severity | CRITICAL |
| Virtual Patch | False |
| Cvss Estimated | False |
| Epss Percentile | 0.99995 |
| Used In Malware | yes |
| Vulnerability Id | CVE-2023-27350 |
| Ahead Of Cisa Kev | None |
| Not Yet In Cisa Kev | False |
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.