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High · 8.8 Known exploited Public exploit CVE-2020-5735 EUVD-2020-26894GHSA-q9mh-3fx2-4gj3

Amcrest cameras and NVR are vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow over port 37777. An authenticated remote attacker can abuse this is…

Published Apr 8, 2020 · Updated Oct 21, 2025 · Assigned by tenable

Description

Amcrest cameras and NVR are vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow over port 37777. An authenticated remote attacker can abuse this issue to crash the device and possibly execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— Amcrest before 2.623.00AC004.0.R.200316, 2.420.AC00.18.R.20200217, 2.800.00AC000.0.R.200330, 2.800.0000000.6.R.200314.bin, 2.622.00AC000.0.R.200320.bin, and 4.000.00AC000.0.R.200218 —

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Exploit-DB 1

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

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