CVE-2023-39143

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2023-08-04. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekWeaponized

Also known asEUVD-2023-42884 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationNo fix is confirmed yet: check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 80%
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 80%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

The CVE record's description, written by its CNA (MITRE Corporation), states the affected versions: "PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF before 22.1.3 on Windows allow path traversal, enabling attackers to upload, read, or delete arbitrary files." No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF before 22.1.3 on Windows allow path traversal, enabling attackers to upload, read, or delete arbitrary files. This leads to remote code execution when external device integration is enabled (a very common configuration).

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
91
EG Risk 91/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation80% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
80%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
80% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

No fix is confirmed yet. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 4, 2023

Last Modified

May 5, 2025

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Oct 10, 2026
No fix on record yet.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 17× in last 7d / 58× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 93 of 134 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 7 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 41 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 21:45 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-01 21:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-10-31 23:32 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-31 23:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-10-31 01:17 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-31 01:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-10-30 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 80% · 99th percentile
  8. 2026-10-30 03:03 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-30 03:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-29 04:49 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-29 04:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-10-28 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 80% · 99th percentile
  13. 2026-10-28 06:31 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-28 06:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-27 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 80% · 99th percentile
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  17. 2026-10-27 08:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  18. 2026-10-26 07:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  20. 2026-10-25 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 80% · 99th percentile
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  22. 2026-10-25 09:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-10-24 11:18 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-24 11:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-23 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 80% · 99th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-23 12:59 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-23 12:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-10-22 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 80% · 99th percentile
  4. 2026-10-22 14:42 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-22 14:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  6. 2026-10-21 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 80% · 99th percentile
  7. 2026-10-21 15:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-10-20 17:39 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-20 17:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-19 19:22 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-19 19:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-10-19 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 80% · 99th percentile
  13. 2026-10-18 21:08 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-18 21:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-18 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 80% · 99th percentile
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  18. 2026-10-17 22:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-10-17 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 80% · 99th percentile
  20. 2026-10-17 00:29 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-17 00:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-10-16 00:00 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-15 23:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  24. 2026-10-14 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 80% · 99th percentile
  25. 2026-10-14 15:59 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-10-14 15:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  27. 2026-10-13 15:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  28. 2026-10-12 16:53 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-10-12 16:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mm5w-gqw5-m4qx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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Public detection templates

(1 reference)

A public Nuclei detection template is referenced for this CVE. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code.

  • Nucleihttp/cves/2023/CVE-2023-39143.yaml
    Published Aug 6, 2023

    PaperCut < 22.1.3 - Path Traversal

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2023-39143?
CVE-2023-39143 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 4, 2023. PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF before 22.1.3 on Windows allow path traversal, enabling attackers to upload, read, or delete arbitrary files. This leads to remote code execution when external device integration is enabled (a very common configuration).
When was the CVE record for CVE-2023-39143 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2023-39143 was published on August 4, 2023. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of May 5, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2023-39143 actively exploited?
CVE-2023-39143 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EchelonGraph's EG-KEV model places it in Tier 2 (Weaponized), which is not evidence of exploitation: CISA's SSVC data says a public PoC exists and its EPSS is 50% or more. EchelonGraph does not test whether exploit code works. FIRST EPSS estimates a 80% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-39143?
CVE-2023-39143 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2023-39143?
No fix for CVE-2023-39143 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The CVE record's description, written by its CNA (MITRE Corporation), states the affected versions: "PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF before 22.1.3 on Windows allow path traversal, enabling attackers to upload, read, or delete arbitrary files." No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

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