# CVE-2017-8225: On Wireless IP Camera (P2P) WIFICAM devices, access to .ini files (containing credentials) is not correctly checked.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB, 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub, 1 Nuclei template
- Published: 2017-04-25 · Updated: 2024-09-17

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

On Wireless IP Camera (P2P) WIFICAM devices, access to .ini files (containing credentials) is not correctly checked. An attacker can bypass authentication by providing an empty loginuse parameter and an empty loginpas parameter in the URI.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2017-03-08-camera-goahead-0day.html#pre-auth-info-leak-goahead
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Mar/23
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43142
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2017/CVE-2017-8225.yaml
- https://github.com/kienquoc102/CVE-2017-8225

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