CameraRisk

CVE-2017-8417

D-Link

Published
2 July 2019
Last modified
17 June 2026
CVSS
8.8 v3.1
Severity
high
EPSS
3.8% (89th pct)
CISA KEV
Not listed
NVD status
Modified
Weaknesses
CWE-255

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

Description

An issue was discovered on D-Link DCS-1100 and DCS-1130 devices. The device requires that a user logging into the device provide a username and password. However, the device allows D-Link apps on the mobile devices and desktop to communicate with the device without any authentication. As a part of that communication, the device uses custom version of base64 encoding to pass data back and forth between the apps and the device. However, the same form of communication can be initiated by any process including an attacker process on the mobile phone or the desktop and this allows a third party to retrieve the device's password without any authentication by sending just 1 UDP packet with custom base64 encoding. The severity of this attack is enlarged by the fact that there more than 100,000 D-Link devices out there.

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 3.8% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

Affected products

ProductVendorTypeVersions named
DCS-1100 D-Link IP camera 1.03, 1.04
DCS-1130 D-Link IP camera 1.03, 1.04

References

CVE-2017-8417 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.