On August 27, 2026, PaperCut Software published an urgent security advisory stating that it is investigating active exploitation of a vulnerability affecting PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF. PaperCut has confirmed customer incidents and is treating the issue as a security emergency. At the initial time of disclosure, the vulnerability had not been assigned a CVE identifier, and PaperCut had not publicly disclosed a CVSS score, vulnerability class, authentication requirements, or the technical details of the exploit path. However on August 28, the vendor assigned CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 for the two vulnerabilities that make up the exploit chain.
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Source: Rapid7 News
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