CVE-2017-20204

CRITICALNVD 9.39.3
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This critical-severity CVE scores 9.3 under NVD CVSS. EPSS exploit probability: 0.7% (53rd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS
Sources: EPSS, NVD CVSS
Elevated

Also known asEUVD-2017-18921 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationNo fix is confirmed yet: check with the vendor for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.7%CVSS: 9.3Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

DBLTek GoIP devices (models GoIP 1, 4, 8, 16, and 32) contain an undocumented vendor backdoor in the Telnet administrative interface that allows remote authentication as an undocumented user via a proprietary challenge–response scheme which is fundamentally flawed. Because the challenge response can be computed from the challenge itself, a remote attacker can authenticate without knowledge of a secret and obtain a root shell on the device. This can lead to persistent remote code execution, full device compromise, and arbitrary control of the device and any managed services. The firmware used within these devices was updated in December 2016 to make this vulnerability more complex to exploit. However, it is unknown if DBLTek has taken steps to fully mitigate.

CVSS
9.3
EG Score
9.3CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
73
EG Risk 73/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity93% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.3 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Check with the vendor for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.7%
EPSS %ILE
53rd
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.3): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.3 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.3 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.7% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-11). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

No fix is confirmed yet. Check with the vendor for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

October 15, 2025

Last Modified

April 15, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Sep 15, 2026
No fix on record yet.
Web page

DBLTek GoIP Telnet Admin Interface Undocumented Backdoor | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/dbltek-goip-telnet-admin-interface-undocumented-backdoor
Web page

GitHub - JacobMisirian/DblTekGoIPPwn: Tool to check if an IP of a DblTek GoIP is vulnerable to a challenge-response login system, send SMS messages from the system, execute remote commands botnet style, and generate responses to challenges. · GitHub

https://github.com/JacobMisirian/DblTekGoIPPwn
Web page

GSM网关, SIM BANK, RolP网关, FXS网关 – 深圳市得伯乐科技有限公司

http://www.dbltek.com/

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 59× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 250 rows on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 150 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-12 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  2. 2026-11-12 15:12 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  3. 2026-11-12 15:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  4. 2026-11-11 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  5. 2026-11-11 16:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  6. 2026-11-10 16:57 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  7. 2026-11-10 16:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  8. 2026-11-10 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  9. 2026-11-09 17:51 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  10. 2026-11-09 17:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  11. 2026-11-09 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  12. 2026-11-08 18:45 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  13. 2026-11-08 18:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  14. 2026-11-08 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  15. 2026-11-07 19:38 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  16. 2026-11-07 19:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  17. 2026-11-07 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  18. 2026-11-06 20:32 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  19. 2026-11-06 20:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  20. 2026-11-06 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  21. 2026-11-05 21:26 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  22. 2026-11-05 21:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  23. 2026-11-05 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
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  25. 2026-11-04 22:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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  1. 2026-11-04 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
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  3. 2026-11-03 23:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  4. 2026-11-03 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  5. 2026-11-02 23:58 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  6. 2026-11-02 23:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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  9. 2026-11-02 00:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  10. 2026-11-01 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
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  12. 2026-11-01 01:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  13. 2026-10-31 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  14. 2026-10-31 02:37 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  15. 2026-10-31 02:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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  18. 2026-10-30 03:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  19. 2026-10-29 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
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  21. 2026-10-29 04:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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  24. 2026-10-28 05:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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  27. 2026-10-27 06:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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  36. 2026-10-24 04:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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  39. 2026-10-23 05:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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  42. 2026-10-22 06:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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  45. 2026-10-21 07:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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  48. 2026-10-20 08:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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  56. 2026-10-17 10:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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  62. 2026-10-15 12:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5g7c-29rx-62p8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2017-20204?
CVE-2017-20204 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 15, 2025. DBLTek GoIP devices (models GoIP 1, 4, 8, 16, and 32) contain an undocumented vendor backdoor in the Telnet administrative interface that allows remote authentication as an undocumented user via a proprietary challenge–response scheme which is fundamentally flawed. Because the challenge response…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2017-20204 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2017-20204 was published on October 15, 2025. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 15, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2017-20204 actively exploited?
CVE-2017-20204 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (53rd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2017-20204?
CVE-2017-20204 has a CVSS base score of 9.3 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2017-20204?
No fix for CVE-2017-20204 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch for a fix.

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