Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-27657

CriticalRCE

Published: 05 March 2025

Published
05 March 2025
Modified
03 November 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0179 82.9th percentile
Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-27657 is a critical-severity Code Injection (CWE-94) vulnerability in Printerlogic Vasion Print. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 17.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 RA-5 (Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning) and SC-7 (Boundary Protection).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190). What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.
Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

prevent

Directly mitigates the unauthenticated RCE vulnerability by requiring timely installation of vendor patches as detailed in security bulletins for affected Vasion Print versions.

prevent

Prevents remote exploitation by enforcing boundary protections that restrict network access to the vulnerable virtual appliance from untrusted sources.

detect

Identifies the presence of the vulnerable PrinterLogic appliance version through regular vulnerability scanning, enabling prioritization of remediation.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
Why these techniques?

This is a remote unauthenticated code execution vulnerability (CWE-94) in a public-facing application (Vasion Print/PrinterLogic appliance), directly mapping to T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application for initial access and arbitrary code execution.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

NVD Description

Vasion Print (formerly PrinterLogic) before Virtual Appliance Host 22.0.843 Application 20.0.1923 allows Remote Code Execution V-2023-008.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-27657 is a remote code execution vulnerability (CWE-94) affecting Vasion Print, formerly known as PrinterLogic, in versions before Virtual Appliance Host 22.0.843 Application 20.0.1923. Designated as V-2023-008, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), marking it as critical due to its potential for severe impact.

The vulnerability enables an unauthenticated attacker with network access to exploit it remotely with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation grants high-impact access to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, allowing arbitrary code execution on the affected appliance.

Vendor security bulletins, available at https://help.printerlogic.com/saas/Print/Security/Security-Bulletins.htm, along with Pierre Kim's disclosure of 83 related vulnerabilities at https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2025-04-08-vasion-printerlogic-83-vulnerabilities.html and the Full Disclosure mailing list entry at http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/18, provide further details on patches and mitigation steps.

Details

CWE(s)

Affected Products

printerlogic
vasion print
≤ 20.0.1923
printerlogic
virtual appliance
≤ 22.0.843

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