PaperCut on Thursday released a new security maintenance release that replaces all previously published emergency patches that were pushed to address two security flaws that have come under active exploitation.
The software development company said PaperCut NG/MF versions 26.0.5, 25.0.13 and 24.1.10 are now available for customers to download.
“These are Regular Maintenance Releases (MR) that have gone through complete QA testing,” it said. “They contain all of the security fixes issued in Emergency Patch Releases 1, 2 and 3, plus additional security hardening, and they have been through our standard release testing process.”
It’s worth noting that the release supersedes the emergency patches that were shipped to address two security flaws as well as two regressions, along with various hardening and mitigation against potential attack chains.
The vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, have come under active exploitation in the wild to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code on susceptible instances.
In one case highlighted by GreyNoise and Blackpoint Cyber, a suspected Russian-speaking threat actor has been found weaponizing the two flaws to break into at least 395 organizations in 48 countries, most of them concentrated in the U.S. education sector.
The attacks used hundreds of AI agents, powered by OpenAI’s Codex harness and a DeepSeek model, to target organizations at scale, while avoiding entities in Russia, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Iran, and 23 other countries. The activity originates from the IP address “45.142.193[.]132.”
“It is unclear if this actor is solely focused on access development to be handed off to other affiliated actors or if they will directly leverage their accesses to achieve follow-on objectives such as data theft or ransomware deployment,” GreyNoise said.
In light of active exploitation efforts, it’s imperative that users apply the latest fixes for optimal protection. PaperCut customers running an emergency patch build are advised to move to a maintenance release.
