CVE-2017-9317 — Privilege escalation vulnerability found in some Dahua IP devices

Privilege escalation vulnerability found in some Dahua IP devices. Attacker in possession of low privilege account can gain access to credential information of high privilege account and further obtain device information or attack the device.

01What is this vulnerability?

Privilege escalation vulnerability found in some Dahua IP devices. Attacker in possession of low privilege account can gain access to credential information of high privilege account and further obtain device information or attack the device.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Dahua Technologies	XVR 5x04, XVR 5x08, XVR 5x16, XVR 7x16, IPC	HDBW4XXX, IPC-HDBW5XXX — Build before 2017/09

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: 2018-05-23T15:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-16T19:36:50.725Z

09References

• www.dahuasecurity.com — https://www.dahuasecurity.com/support/cybersecurity/annoucementNotice/337