What is CVE-2017-7851?

CVE-2017-7851 is a high-severity vulnerability in D-Link Dcs-936l, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2017-11-15.

How severe is CVE-2017-7851?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

CSRF in D-Link Dcs-936l

CVE-2017-7851

D-Link DCS-936L devices with firmware before 1.05.07 have an inadequate CSRF protection mechanism that requires the device's IP address to be a substring of the HTTP Referer header.

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

Published 2017-11-15 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.025 (83.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 83.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.025 · newest: 0.025 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

References

www.qualys.com/2017/03/26/qsa-2017-03-26/qsa-2017-03-26.pdf (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-7851?: CVE-2017-7851 is a high-severity vulnerability in D-Link Dcs-936l, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2017-11-15.
How severe is CVE-2017-7851?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.