Vulnerability · Published Oct 6, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-24215

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 19.8% (higher than 97% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)19.8%top 2.6% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/896979 x_refsource_MISC
https://kojenov.com/2020-09-15-hisilicon-encoder-vulnerabilities/ x_refsource_MISC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159601/HiSilicon-Video-Encoder-Backdoor-Password.html x_refsource_MISC