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CVE-2017-20204

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-20204 describes an undocumented vendor backdoor in DBLTek GoIP devices (models 1, 4, 8, 16, and 32) accessible via the Telnet administrative interface. This critical vulnerability, rated 9.3 CVSS, allows remote attackers to authenticate without credentials due to a flawed challenge-response scheme, leading to a root shell. This enables persistent remote code execution, full device compromise, and arbitrary control over the device and its managed services. While a December 2016 firmware update made exploitation more complex, a full mitigation is unconfirmed, and there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
DBL Technology (DBLTek)GoIP
All Versions ImpactedCNA affecteddefault unaffected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

9.3CRITICAL

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
HIGH
VS Integrity
HIGH
VS Availability
HIGH
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.84%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0084 is in the 38th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

github.com / JacobMisirian/DblTekGoIPPwn
trustwave.com / en-us/resources/blogs/spiderlabs-blog/undocumented-backdoor-account-in-dbltek-goip
vulncheck.com / advisories/dbltek-goip-telnet-admin-interface-undocumented-backdoor
dbltek.com