{"id":243360,"date":"2026-08-29T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/attackers-chain-two-papercut-flaws-to-execute-code-without-authentication"},"modified":"2026-08-29T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:16:09","slug":"attackers-chain-two-papercut-flaws-to-execute-code-without-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/attackers-chain-two-papercut-flaws-to-execute-code-without-authentication","title":{"rendered":"Attackers Chain Two PaperCut Flaws to Execute Code Without Authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/attackers-chain-two-papercut-flaws-to-execute-code-without-authentication.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The development comes after PaperCut <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/08\/papercut-zero-day-exploited-in-attacks.html\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a> a second emergency patch that it said includes \u201cadditional hardening beyond the original emergency patch.\u201d The Australian company has yet to share details about the nature of the malicious activity weaponizing the flaws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time, we don\u2019t have enough evidence to determine the threat actors\u2019 ultimate end goal,\u201d John Hammond, senior principal security researcher at Huntress, told The Hacker News. \u201cBased on what we observed, the activity appears consistent with early-stage reconnaissance or validation, including commands to identify the victim\u2019s user account and operating system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to preemptive exposure management firm watchTowr, attackers are chaining together both vulnerabilities to bypass authentication and gain remote code execution on affected instances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development comes after PaperCut released a second emergency patch that it said includes \u201cadditional hardening beyond the original emergency patch.\u201d The Australian company has yet to share details about the nature of the malicious activity weaponizing the flaws. \u201cAt this time, we don\u2019t have enough evidence to determine the threat actors\u2019 ultimate end goal,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}