CVE-2020-24215

CRITICAL

HiSilicon IPTV/H.264/H.265 - RCE

Title source: llm

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC

by Alexei Kojenov · bashwebappshardware

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48902

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (3)

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159601/HiSilicon-Video-Encoder-Backdoor-Password.html

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://kojenov.com/2020-09-15-hisilicon-encoder-vulnerabilities/

[Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource] https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/896979

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8

EPSS 0.4218

EPSS Percentile 97.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-798

Status published

Products (7)

jtechdigital/h.264_iptv_encoder_1080p\@60hz_firmware

provideoinstruments/vecaster-4k-hevc_firmware

provideoinstruments/vecaster-hd-h264_firmware

provideoinstruments/vecaster-hd-hevc_firmware

provideoinstruments/vecaster-hd-sdi_firmware

szuray/iptv\/h.264_video_encoder_firmware

szuray/iptv\/h.265_video_encoder_firmware

Published Oct 06, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026