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Improvement to Printer OS Fingerprinting
Updated: April 3, 2026 Summary Scanned printers will now have an OS artefact surfaced in their scan host metadata if the target has been identified as a printer when the “Scan Network Printers” pol...
Where does the plugin ID 30207 - lpd_detect.nasl fall in line with detecting printers?
We still see printers showing as Linux Devices such as a SHARP BP-51MM45 that is found in the snmp_sysDesc.nasl (plugin ID 10800).
So we can see in a couple of spots that this is a SHARP printer, but the detection is getting missed. We will likely have more examples, but it doesn't seem like the above corrects some of our other heavy hitters.
