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CVE-2020-27553

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-11-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

In BASETech GE-131 BT-1837836 firmware 20180921, the web-server on the system is configured with the option “DocumentRoot /etc“. This allows an attacker with network access to the web-server to download any files from the “/etc” folder without authentication. No path traversal sequences are needed to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Basetech Ge-131 Bt-1837836 Firmware: 20180921

References

• https://infosec.rm-it.de/2020/11/04/basetech-ip-camera-analysis/#vulns
• https://infosec.rm-it.de/2020/11/04/basetech-ip-camera-analysis/#vulns

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