CVE-2020-24215

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2020-24215 · Published 06/10/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-24215 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability.
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 19.8%, higher than 97.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
—	No affected product versions are listed for this vulnerability yet.

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.

References

packetstormsecurity.com/files/159601/HiSilicon-Video-Encoder-Backdoor-Password.html · Exploit
kojenov.com/2020-09-15-hisilicon-encoder-vulnerabilities · Exploit
kb.cert.org/vuls/id/896979 · Third Party Advisory

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