Foscam C1 Indoor HD Camera 2.52.2.43 Recovery Procedure HTTP Request access control

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Foscam C1 Indoor HD Camera 2.52.2.43. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Recovery Procedure. The manipulation as part of HTTP Request leads to access control. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2017-2872. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Foscam C1 Indoor HD Camera 2.52.2.43 (Network Camera Software). This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Recovery Procedure. The manipulation as part of a HTTP Request leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Insufficient security checks exist in the recovery procedure used by the Foscam C1 Indoor HD Camera running application firmware 2.52.2.43. A HTTP request can allow for a user to perform a firmware upgrade using a crafted image. Before any firmware upgrades in this image are flashed to the device, binaries as well as arguments to shell commands contained in the image are executed with elevated privileges.

The bug was discovered 11/13/2017. The weakness was shared 09/17/2018 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at talosintelligence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-2872 since 11/30/2016. The attack may be initiated remotely. The successful exploitation needs a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 308 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entries VDB-124140, VDB-124138, VDB-124137 and VDB-124136 are related to this item. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Network Camera Software

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• Foscam

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• C1 Indoor HD Camera

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• 2.52.2.43

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.foscam.com/

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