CVE-2017-5675
A command-injection vulnerability exists in a web application on a custom-built GoAhead web server used on Foscam, Vstarcam, and multiple white-label IP camera models.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.71%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A command-injection vulnerability exists in a web application on a custom-built GoAhead web server used on Foscam, Vstarcam, and multiple white-label IP camera models. The mail-sending form in the mail.htm page allows an attacker to inject a command into the receiver1 field in the form; it will be executed with root privileges.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.71% probability · 77th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-77
- Affected
- embedthis/goahead
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.7% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://www.cybereason.com/cve-ip-cameras/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cybereason.com/zero-day-exploits-turn-hundreds-of-thousands-of-ip-cameras-into-iot-botnet-slaves/Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cybereason.com/cve-ip-cameras/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cybereason.com/zero-day-exploits-turn-hundreds-of-thousands-of-ip-cameras-into-iot-botnet-slaves/Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.