CVE-2017-7253

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-922

Description

Dahua IP Camera devices 3.200.0001.6 can be exploited via these steps: 1. Use the default low-privilege credentials to list all users via a request to a certain URI. 2. Login to the IP camera with admin credentials so as to obtain full control of the target IP camera. During exploitation, the first JSON object encountered has a "Component error: login challenge!" message. The second JSON object encountered has a result indicating a successful admin login.

Affected products

Dahua IP Camera: 3.200.0001.6

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97263
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/16aca69b7dea27cb73ddebb0d9033b02
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97263
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/16aca69b7dea27cb73ddebb0d9033b02

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