What is CVE-2020-5736?

CVE-2020-5736 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Amcrest 1080-Lite 8ch, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-04-08.

How severe is CVE-2020-5736?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

NULL pointer dereference in Amcrest 1080-Lite 8ch

CVE-2020-5736

Amcrest cameras and NVR are vulnerable to a null pointer dereference over port 37777. An authenticated remote attacker can abuse this issue to crash the device.

Published 2020-04-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (74.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 74.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-20 (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-5736?: CVE-2020-5736 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Amcrest 1080-Lite 8ch, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-04-08.
How severe is CVE-2020-5736?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.