CVE-2022-38399 — Missing protection mechanism for alternate hardware interface in SmaCam CS-QR10

Missing protection mechanism for alternate hardware interface in SmaCam CS-QR10 all versions and SmaCam Night Vision CS-QR20 all versions allows an attacker to execute an arbitrary OS command by having the product connect to the product's specific serial connection

01What is this vulnerability?

Missing protection mechanism for alternate hardware interface in SmaCam CS-QR10 all versions and SmaCam Night Vision CS-QR20 all versions allows an attacker to execute an arbitrary OS command by having the product connect to the product's specific serial connection

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
PLANEX COMMUNICATIONS INC.	SmaCam CS	QR10 and SmaCam Night Vision CS-QR20 — All versions

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: 2022-09-08T07:10:46.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-03T10:54:03.723Z

09References

• www.planex.co.jp — https://www.planex.co.jp/products/cs-qr10/index.shtml
• www.planex.co.jp — https://www.planex.co.jp/products/cs-qr20/index.shtml
• jvn.jp — https://jvn.jp/en/vu/JVNVU90766406/index.html