Vulnerabilities

PaperCut: active exploitation and 31 identified organisations in France

PaperCut confirms exploitation of NG/MF. A tally cited by the French health CERT identifies 395 organisations in 48 countries, including 31 in France.

Conceptual illustration: PaperCut: active exploitation and 31 identified organisations in France
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What is confirmed

PaperCut reports confirmed customer incidents and recommends maintenance versions 26.0.5, 25.0.13 or 24.1.10 for the relevant branch.

The French health CERT cites a 9 September tally of at least 440 compromised servers across 395 organisations in 48 countries, 31 in France. It is a security vendor's tally, not an exhaustive census.

What it means

The vendor describes flaws in administration access control and database connector class loading. In some environments these can be chained.

A public URL checker can surface reputation signals but cannot inventory your PaperCut servers or prove an internal system was not compromised.

What to do

Inventory exposed NG/MF instances, compare versions against the PaperCut bulletin and install the relevant maintenance release.

Restrict administration access and review the vendor's logs and indicators of compromise. Have a security team examine suspected servers.

Check a suspicious sign

Use the related SecurCheck tool, then confirm important decisions with an official source.

Sources

  1. PaperCut — bulletin de sécurité
  2. CERT Santé — campagne PaperCut