CVE-2018-5550 — Versions of Epson AirPrint released prior to January 19, 2018 contain a reflecti

Versions of Epson AirPrint released prior to January 19, 2018 contain a reflective cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, which can allow untrusted users on the network to hijack a session cookie or perform other reflected XSS attacks on a currently logged-on user.

01What is this vulnerability?

Versions of Epson AirPrint released prior to January 19, 2018 contain a reflective cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, which can allow untrusted users on the network to hijack a session cookie or perform other reflected XSS attacks on a currently logged-on user.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Epson	Epson AirPrint	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-02-08T19:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T05:40:50.577Z

09References

• epson.com — https://epson.com/support/wa00860
• blog.rapid7.com — https://blog.rapid7.com/2018/02/08/r7-2017-28-epson-airprint-xss-cve-2018-5550/