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CVE-2017-20156

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—

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.

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Printer Project — Printer

CWEs

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