CVE-2026-82078

Exploitation: active CVSS 9.4 CRITICAL

CVSS base score: 9.4 (Critical) vendor CNA · v4.0

Score assigned by the vendor's own CVE Numbering Authority (CNA); CISA's Vulnrichment program adds a score only when the CNA omits one.

PaperCut NG/MF Unsafe Reflection Vulnerability

Vendor: PaperCut Product: NG/MF

Description

PaperCut NG/MF contains an unsafe reflection vulnerability that allows an attacker to manipulate system configuration parameters and execute arbitrary Java bytecode residing on the application classpath under the security context of the PaperCut server process. This vulnerability can be chained with CVE-2026-81578.

Lifecycle Timeline

2026-08-27

Public exploit code

Metasploit — PaperCut NG/MF Unauthenticated RCE (CVE-2026-81578 + CVE-2026-82078)

Metasploit →
2026-08-28

CVE published 1 day later

Entered the public CVE record.

CVE.org →
2026-08-31

Added to CISA KEV 3 days later

Listed as known exploited, which starts the federal remediation clock.

CISA KEV →
2026-09-14

Federal remediation due 14 days later

Deadline for federal civilian agencies under BOD 22-01 — now passed.

CISA KEV
not recorded

EPSS flags exploitation risk

Tracked, and has never reached 10% (peak 3.6%).
not recorded

First national advisory

No tracked government advisory analyses this CVE. Routine KEV catalog-addition alerts do not count here.
not recorded

Vendor fix published

No dated vendor fix. Only Microsoft publishes a machine-readable release date; other vendors state a fixed version without one.

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 16 points from 2026-08-29, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 3.6% on 2026-09-16.

Published Applicability

CVE List v5 (CNA container) 4 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected

Check whether a specific version is affected →

What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

Date	Source	Article
2026-09-05	The Hacker News	Attackers Exploit PaperCut Flaws to Steal Credentials From Schools and Universities
2026-08-31	Check Point Research	31th August – Threat Intelligence Report

Articles from monitored vendor research blogs and security news feeds that specifically mention this CVE. Coverage begins when feed monitoring started; earlier articles are not indexed.

Detection & Exploitation

Scan

Nuclei

Exploit / Pen Test

Metasploit

Network IDS/IPS

none published

Host / SIEM

none published

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

Exploitation

active

Automatable

Technical impact

total

CVSS — CISA

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CVSS — vendor CNA 4.0

9.4 CRITICAL

Vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Weakness

CWE-470 — Use of Externally-Controlled input to select classes or code ('unsafe reflection')

Assessment updated

2026-08-28

KEV Catalog Status

Added to KEV

2026-08-31

BOD 22-01 due date

2026-09-14

Known ransomware use

Unknown

Listed By

Source	Date	Record
CISA Vulnrichment	2026-08-28	source record →
CISA KEV	2026-08-31	source record →

Referenced in Advisories

Date	Advisory	Issuer
2026-08-31	CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog	CISA

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

Date	Tool	Evidence quality	Reference
—	Metasploit	Direct — curated exploit code	PaperCut NG/MF Unauthenticated RCE (CVE-2026-81578 + CVE-2026-82078)

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References

CVE.org record → NVD entry → CISA KEV catalog → FortiGuard Labs → Rapid7 AttackerKB →

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