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CVE-2017-5368

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-02-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

ZoneMinder v1.30 and v1.29, an open-source CCTV server web application, is vulnerable to CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) which allows a remote attack to make changes to the web application as the current logged in victim. If the victim visits a malicious web page, the attacker can silently and automatically create a new admin user within the web application for remote persistence and further attacks. The URL is /zm/index.php and sample parameters could include action=user uid=0 newUser[Username]=attacker1 newUser[Password]=Password1234 conf_password=Password1234 newUser[System]=Edit (among others).

Affected products

• zoneminder: 1.29.0, 1.30.0

References

• http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/Feb/6
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Feb/11
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96126
• http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/Feb/6
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Feb/11
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96126

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