Hikvision Critical Cloud Vulnerability Disclosed

Author: IPVM Team, Published on Apr 25, 2018

Security researchers Vangelis Stykas and George Lavdanis discovered a vulnerability in Hikvision's HikConnect cloud service that:

just by knowing the email,phone or username they used while registering, after that you can view the live feed of the cam/DVR, manipulate the DVR, change that user’s email/phone and password and effectively lock the user out

The researchers detail the process and the issues in this post. Hikvision HQ has acknowledged the vulnerability and released a fix.

Inside this note, we examine what the issue was, compare it to 2017's Hikvision IP Camera backdoor and explain why this one was a coding error and not anything to do with Hikvision's Chinese government ownership.

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Comments (12)

John Honovich

IPVM | 04/25/18 01:45pm

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Undisclosed #1

In reply to John Honovich | 04/25/18 01:50pm

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Undisclosed Distributor #2

In reply to Undisclosed #1 | 04/25/18 01:59pm

**. *** ** "****".

:)

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Michael Gonzalez

04/26/18 01:57am

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Nathan Causby

IPVMU Certified | In reply to Michael Gonzalez | 04/26/18 12:31pm

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John Honovich

IPVM | 04/26/18 10:47am

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Ryan O'Daniel

IPVMU Certified | In reply to John Honovich | 04/27/18 01:49pm

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John Honovich

IPVM | In reply to Ryan O'Daniel | 04/27/18 02:07pm

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Tim Pickles

In reply to John Honovich | 04/27/18 03:49pm

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John Honovich

IPVM | In reply to Tim Pickles | 04/27/18 07:05pm

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Tim Pickles

In reply to John Honovich | 04/27/18 08:11pm

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bashis mcw

04/26/18 03:56pm

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