Security Notification - Command Injection Vulnerability in Some Hikvision products

SN No.: HSRC-202109-01

Edit: Hikvision Security Response Center (HSRC)

Initial release date: 2021-09-19

Summary:

A command injection vulnerability in the web server of some Hikvision product. Due to the insufficient input validation, attacker can exploit the vulnerability to launch a command injection attack by sending some messages with malicious commands.

CVE ID:

CVE-2021-36260

Scoring:

CVSS v3 is adopted in this vulnerability scoring（http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document）

Base score: 9.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Temporal score: 8.8 (E:P/RL:O/RC:C)

Affected versions and resolved version:

Your device firmware is affected by this security vulnerability (CVE-2021-36260) if its version dated earlier than 210628. Please install the updates immediately. Information of affected versions and resolved versions:

Product name	Affected version(s)
DS-2CVxxx1 DS-2CVxxx6	Versions which Build time before 210625
IPC-xxxx
DS-2CD1xx1
DS-2CD1x23G0 DS-2CD1x23G0E(C) DS-2CD1x43(B) DS-2CD1x43(C) DS-2CD1x43G0E DS-2CD1x53(B) DS-2CD1x53(C)
DS-2CD1xx7G0
DS-2CD2xx6G2 DS-2CD2xx6G2(C) DS-2CD2xx7G2 DS-2CD2xx7G2(C)
DS-2CD2x21G0 DS-2CD2x21G0(C) DS-2CD2x21G1 DS-2CD2x21G1(C)
DS-2CD2xx3G2
DS-2CD3xx6G2 DS-2CD3xx6G2(C) DS-2CD3xx7G2 DS-2CD3xx7G2(C)
DS-2CD3xx7G0E
DS-2CD3x21G0 DS-2CD3x21G0(C) DS-2CD3x51G0(C)
DS-2CD3xx3G2
DS-2CD4xx0 DS-2CD4xx6 iDS-2XM6810 iDS-2CD6810
DS-2XE62x2F(D) DS-2XC66x5G0 DS-2XE64x2F(B)
DS-2CD8Cx6G0
(i)DS-2DExxxx
(i)DS-2PTxxxx
(i)DS-2SE7xxxx
DS-2DYHxxxx
DS-DY9xxxx
PTZ-Nxxxx
DS-2DF5xxxx DS-2DF6xxxx DS-2DF6xxxx-Cx DS-2DF7xxxx DS-2DF8xxxx DS-2DF9xxxx
iDS-2PT9xxxx
iDS-2SK7xxxx iDS-2SK8xxxx
iDS-2SR8xxxx
iDS-2VSxxxx
DS-2TBxxx DS-Bxxxx DS-2TDxxxxB	Versions which Build time before 210702
DS-2TD1xxx-xx DS-2TD2xxx-xx
DS-2TD41xx-xx/Wx DS-2TD62xx-xx/Wx DS-2TD81xx-xx/Wx DS-2TD4xxx-xx/V2 DS-2TD62xx-xx/V2 DS-2TD81xx-xx/V2
DS-76xxNI-K1xx(C) DS-76xxNI-Qxx(C) DS-HiLookI-NVR-1xxMHxx-C(C) DS-HiLookI-NVR-2xxMHxx-C(C)	V4.30.210 Build201224 - V4.31.000 Build210511
DS-71xxNI-Q1xx(C) DS-HiLookI-NVR-1xxMHxx-D(C) DS-HiLookI-NVR-1xxHxx-D(C)	V4.30.300 Build210221 - V4.31.100 Build210511

Precondition:

The attacker has access to the device network or the device has direct interface with the internet

Attack step:

Send a specially crafted message.

Obtaining fixed firmware:

Users should download the updated firmware to guard against this potential vulnerability. It is available on the Hikvision official website: Firmware download. Users can also use the Search Tool for Important Firmware Update to quickly detect critical vulnerabilities and download corresponding firmware.

Source of vulnerability information:

This vulnerability is reported to HSRC by UK security researcher Watchful IP.

Contact Us:

Should you have a security problem or concern, please contact Hikvision Security Response Center at hsrc@hikvision.com.

2021-09-19 V1.0 INITIAL

2021-09-23 V1.1 UPDATED: Updated Affected Versions

2021-09-24 V1.2 UPDATED: Updated Affected Versions

2021-11-08 V1.3 UPDATED: Updated Affected Versions

2021-12-31 V1.4 UPDATED: Updated Affected Versions