CVE-2024-8405: PaperCut MF

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 when a maliciously formed payload is provided. This can be used to flood disk space and result in a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. Note: This CVE has been split from CVE-2024-4712.

Affected products

• PaperCut PaperCut MF: before 23.0.9 (fixed in 23.0.9)
• PaperCut PaperCut NG: before 23.0.9 (fixed in 23.0.9)

Published 2024-09-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.