CVE-2020-11680 — Castel NextGen DVR v1

Castel NextGen DVR v1.0.0 is vulnerable to authorization bypass on all administrator functionality. The application fails to check that a request was submitted by an administrator. Consequently, a normal user can perform actions including, but not limited to, creating/modifying t

01What is this vulnerability?

Castel NextGen DVR v1.0.0 is vulnerable to authorization bypass on all administrator functionality. The application fails to check that a request was submitted by an administrator. Consequently, a normal user can perform actions including, but not limited to, creating/modifying the file store, creating/modifying alerts, creating/modifying users, etc.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-06-04T18:38:21.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T11:35:13.647Z

09References

• www.securitymetrics.com — https://www.securitymetrics.com/blog/attackers-known-unknown-authorization-bypas…
• seclists.org — http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jun/8
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157954/Castel-NextGen-DVR-1.0.0-Bypass-CSRF…