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CVE-2017-20156: Exciting Printer Argument prepare_page.rb command injection

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-12-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-77

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.

Affected products

• Exciting Printer: before 2017-07-08 — fixed in 2017-07-08

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Exciting Printer 2017-07-08. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/exciting-io/printer/commit/5f8c715d6e2cc000f621a6833f0a86a673462136
• https://github.com/exciting-io/printer/issues/56
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217139
• https://vuldb.com/?id.217139
• https://github.com/exciting-io/printer/commit/5f8c715d6e2cc000f621a6833f0a86a673462136
• https://github.com/exciting-io/printer/issues/56
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217139
• https://vuldb.com/?id.217139

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