CameraRisk

CVE-2017-2873

Foscam

Published
19 September 2018
Last modified
17 June 2026
CVSS
7.2 v3.1
Severity
high
EPSS
5.0% (92th pct)
CISA KEV
Not listed
NVD status
Modified
Weaknesses
CWE-78

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the web management interface used by the Foscam C1 Indoor HD Camera running application firmware 2.52.2.43. A specially crafted HTTP request can allow for a user to inject arbitrary shell characters during the SoftAP configuration resulting in command injection. An attacker can simply send an HTTP request to the device to trigger this vulnerability.

Exploitation

Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue as of 2026.09.04. That is an absence of confirmed public exploitation, not evidence that exploitation has not occurred. EPSS models a 5.0% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, placing it in the top decile of all scored CVEs.

Affected products

ProductVendorTypeVersions named
C1 Foscam unknown 2, 2.52.2.37, 2.52.2.43, 3 +2

References

CVE-2017-2873 at NVD

Record assembled from NVD, CISA KEV 2026.09.04 and FIRST EPSS 2026-09-04. Affected products are those NVD's CPE configuration names that fall inside this site's scope; a CVE may affect products outside it.