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 10:45am

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******* ********:

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*********, *****'* ****** ** ************ *** **** *******.

Undisclosed #1

In reply to John Honovich | 04/25/18 10:50am

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Undisclosed Distributor #2

In reply to Undisclosed #1 | 04/25/18 10:59am

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

:)

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Michael Gonzalez

04/25/18 10:57pm

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Nathan Causby

IPVMU Certified | In reply to Michael Gonzalez | 04/26/18 09:31am

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John Honovich

IPVM | 04/26/18 07:47am

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Ryan O'Daniel

IPVMU Certified | In reply to John Honovich | 04/27/18 10:49am

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John Honovich

IPVM | In reply to Ryan O'Daniel | 04/27/18 11:07am

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**** ***** ********* ** **.

Tim Pickles

Optyma Security Systems | In reply to John Honovich | 04/27/18 12:49pm

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John Honovich

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

***,

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Tim Pickles

Optyma Security Systems | In reply to John Honovich | 04/27/18 05:11pm

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bashis mcw

04/26/18 12:56pm

**** ****!

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