CVE-2017-2842

C1 Indoor Hd Camera Firmware vulnerability

CVSS

8.8

EPSS

3.4%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

In the web management interface in Foscam C1 Indoor HD Camera running application firmware 2.52.2.37, a specially crafted HTTP request can allow for a user to inject arbitrary data in the "msmtprc" configuration file resulting in command execution. An attacker can simply send an HTTP request to the device to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected vendor

Foscam

Affected product

C1 Indoor Hd Camera Firmware

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

Published

2017-06-27

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Foscam C1 Indoor Hd Camera Firmware is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-2842.
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