CVE-2017-2741
A potential security vulnerability has been identified with HP PageWide Printers, HP OfficeJet Pro Printers, with firmware before 1708D.…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 82.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
A potential security vulnerability has been identified with HP PageWide Printers, HP OfficeJet Pro Printers, with firmware before 1708D. This vulnerability could potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits5
Metasploit modules1 module
- HP Jetdirect Path Traversal Arbitrary Code Execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/misc/hp_jetdirect_path_traversalRank normaldisclosed 5 Apr 2017
Exploit-DB2 entries
- HP Jetdirect - Path Traversal Arbitrary Code Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 45273remote, unixpublished 27 Aug 2018Verified
- HP PageWide Printers / HP OfficeJet Pro Printers (OfficeJet Pro 8210) - Arbitrary Code Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 42176remote, hardwarepublished 14 Jun 2017Not verified
References tagged exploit2 references
- 42176 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 45273 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By hp
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 82.3% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
HP Inc. · HP PageWide Printers; HP OfficeJet Pro Printers
- affected before 1708D
References
3
- 42176 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 45273 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- HPSBPI03555 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-11884 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2017-2741)Record last updated .