CVE-2017-17020
On D-Link DCS-5009 devices with firmware 1.08.11 and earlier, DCS-5010 devices with firmware 1.14.09 and earlier, and DCS-5020L devices…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 14.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
On D-Link DCS-5009 devices with firmware 1.08.11 and earlier, DCS-5010 devices with firmware 1.14.09 and earlier, and DCS-5020L devices with firmware before 1.15.01, command injection in alphapd (binary responsible for running the camera's web server) allows remote authenticated attackers to execute code through sanitized /setSystemAdmin user input in the AdminID field being passed directly to a call to system.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- DLINK DCS-5020L - Remote Code Execution (PoC) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 44580webapps, hardwarepublished 27 Mar 2018Not verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 14.8% · top 3.3% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
2
- https://www.fidusinfosec.com/dlink-dcs-5030l-remote-code-execution-cve-2017-17020/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://supportannouncement.us.dlink.com/announcement/publication.aspx?name=SAP10084 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-8190 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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