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CVE-2025-34217: Vasion Print Virtual Appliance Host · Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key

Affects Vasion Print Virtual Appliance HostSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 10.0 Critical.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 17:16 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
10.0Critical
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 54% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 30 Sep 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Vasion Print Virtual Appliance HostAffected
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Fixed in–

AI-suggested

Immediate mitigation steps include identifying all Vasion Print Virtual Appliance Hosts in the environment and auditing for the presence of the 'printerlogic' user and its authorized_keys file. Organizations should remove or replace the hardcoded SSH public key with unique, securely generated keys per deployment. The 'printerlogic' user account should be disabled or removed if not essential, or at minimum, its sudoers privileges must be restricted to prevent passwordless root access. Network segmentation should be enforced to limit access to the appliance from untrusted sources. Monitoring for unusual SSH login attempts or privilege escalations related to this user is critical. Since no official patches are currently available, organizations should engage with Vasion for updates and apply vendor-supplied patches as soon as they are released. Additionally, implementing multi-factor authentication for administrative access and employing host-based intrusion detection systems can help detect and prevent exploitation attempts. Regularly reviewing and hardening appliance configurations will reduce attack surface exposure.

Description

Vasion Print (formerly PrinterLogic) Virtual Appliance Host and Application (VA/SaaS deployments) contain an undocumented 'printerlogic' user with a hardcoded SSH public key in '~/.ssh/authorized_keys' and a sudoers rule granting the printerlogic_ssh group 'NOPASSWD: ALL'. Possession of the matching private key gives an attacker root access to the appliance.

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