CVE-2017-20156
A vulnerability was found in Exciting Printer and classified as critical.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.15%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A vulnerability was found in Exciting Printer and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file lib/printer/jobs/prepare_page.rb of the component Argument Handler. The manipulation of the argument URL leads to command injection. The patch is named 5f8c715d6e2cc000f621a6833f0a86a673462136. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217139.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.15% probability · 82th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-77
- Affected
- printer project/printer
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
EPSS 2.2% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/exciting-io/printer/commit/5f8c715d6e2cc000f621a6833f0a86a673462136Patch
- https://github.com/exciting-io/printer/issues/56Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217139Third Party Advisory
- https://vuldb.com/?id.217139Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/exciting-io/printer/commit/5f8c715d6e2cc000f621a6833f0a86a673462136Patch
- https://github.com/exciting-io/printer/issues/56Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217139Third Party Advisory
- https://vuldb.com/?id.217139Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.