CVE-2025-27681
Printerlogic Vasion Print ≤ 20.0.1330
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HSummary
CVE-2025-27681 is a critical-severity Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security (CWE-602) 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 49% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-25 (Reference Monitor) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2025-27681 affects Vasion Print, formerly known as PrinterLogic, in versions before Virtual Appliance Host 1.0.735 Application 20.0.1330. The vulnerability stems from mishandling Client Inter-process Security V-2022-004, mapped to CWE-602 (Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security). 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), reflecting critical severity due to its network vector, low complexity, lack of required privileges or user interaction, and high impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability over the network without privileges or user interaction. Exploitation enables high-level compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution or full control over the affected appliance.
Vendor security bulletins provide mitigation guidance at https://help.printerlogic.com/saas/Print/Security/Security-Bulletins.htm. Additional details appear in Pierre Kim's analysis of 83 Vasion/PrinterLogic vulnerabilities at https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2025-04-08-vasion-printerlogic-83-vulnerabilities.html and the Full Disclosure mailing list at http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/18.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-6037
Vulnerability Data
Vasion Print (formerly PrinterLogic) before Virtual Appliance Host 1.0.735 Application 20.0.1330 mishandles Client Inter-process Security V-2022-004.
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Requires a tamper-proof, always-invoked reference monitor that cannot be bypassed by client-side logic.
Enforces all access decisions on the server according to policy rather than trusting client-supplied enforcement.
Enforces information-flow rules at the server boundary instead of delegating them to the client.
Monitors and controls all external and key internal interfaces so that server-side policy cannot be off-loaded to clients.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Secure architecture principles discourage client-side trust but do not directly address this weakness.
Security testing can detect client-side enforcement but is not the primary mitigation.
Information access restriction is undermined when the client is trusted to enforce it.
Secure development lifecycle mandates server-side validation and prevents reliance on client enforcement.
Application security requirements explicitly call for server-side enforcement of security mechanisms.
Secure coding standards require server-side checks and reject client-only enforcement.