Finding Hikvision IP cameras and recorders on your network
Newly published security research from Watchful IP reveals an unauthenticated code execution vulnerability (assigned CVE-2021-36260) present in many Hikvision networked video devices. With a “critical” CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability affects a long list of Hikvision products (captured in this security advisory) and may have been around for at least the past five years. An attacker only needs access to an open http(s) server port (e.g. 80, 443) on a vulnerable device in order to obtain a root-level shell, giving them total control of the device and providing a foothold for further access into internal networks.
Hikvision has published a security advisory for affected devices, which encourages device owners to update to the latest patched firmware. In addition to the Hikvision brand, this vulnerability is presumed to affect devices OEM’d by Hikvision through other vendors and sold under different brand names.
Finding Hikvision IP cameras and recorders with Rumble
From the Asset Inventory, use the following pre-built query to locate Hikvision devices in your network:
protocols:http AND (vendor:hikvision OR hw:hikvision)

As always, any prebuilt queries we create are available from our Queries Library. Check out the library for other useful inventory queries.

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