CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-24215
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-10-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-798
Description
An issue was discovered in the box application on HiSilicon based IPTV/H.264/H.265 video encoders. Attackers can use hard-coded credentials in HTTP requests to perform any administrative task on the device including retrieving the device's configuration (with the cleartext admin password), and uploading a custom firmware update, to ultimately achieve arbitrary code execution.
Affected configurations
• szuray iptv\/h.264 video encoder firmware
• szuray iptv\/h.265 video encoder firmware
• jtechdigital h.264 iptv encoder 1080p\@60hz firmware
• provideoinstruments vecaster-hd-h264 firmware
• provideoinstruments vecaster-hd-hevc firmware
• provideoinstruments vecaster-4k-hevc firmware
• provideoinstruments vecaster-hd-sdi firmware
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159601/HiSilicon-Video-Encoder-Backdoor-Password.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://kojenov.com/2020-09-15-hisilicon-encoder-vulnerabilities/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/896979 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159601/HiSilicon-Video-Encoder-Backdoor-Password.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://kojenov.com/2020-09-15-hisilicon-encoder-vulnerabilities/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/896979 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource