CVE-2017-2873 — An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the web management inte

An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the web management interface used by the Foscam C1 Indoor HD Camera running application firmware 2.52.2.43. A specially crafted HTTP request can allow for a user to inject arbitrary shell characters during the SoftAP config

01What is this vulnerability?

An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the web management interface used by the Foscam C1 Indoor HD Camera running application firmware 2.52.2.43. A specially crafted HTTP request can allow for a user to inject arbitrary shell characters during the SoftAP configuration resulting in command injection. An attacker can simply send an HTTP request to the device to trigger this…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Foscam	Foscam C1 Indoor HD Camera	Foscam Indoor IP Camera C1 Series

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: 2018-09-19T18:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-16T20:07:36.326Z

09References

• talosintelligence.com — https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0380