CVE-2023-6006

Summary

CVE-2023-6006 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting PaperCut NG installations. An attacker who can write to the local C Drive and has admin privileges or a misconfigured system can exploit this flaw. The vulnerability lies within the pc-pdl-to-image process, which loads an executable from an unsecured location, enabling the attacker to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM level access. However, this vulnerability does not apply to PaperCut NG installations with Print Archiving enabled and configured correctly.

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