SARA / Free Tools / KEV / CVE-2021-36260

CVE-2021-36260 on CISA KEV

A command injection vulnerability in the web server of some Hikvision product. Due to the insufficient input validation, attacker can exploit the vulnerability to launch a command injection attack by sending some messages with malicious commands.

CISA KEV — Actively Exploited

Hikvision Improper Input Validation

Vendor / Product
— / Hikvision / Security cameras web server
Added to KEV
2022-01-10
BOD 22-01 due
2022-01-24
Ransomware use
Unknown
CVSS / EPSS
· EPSS 94.44%

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

A command injection vulnerability in the web server of some Hikvision product. Due to the insufficient input validation, attacker can exploit the vulnerability to launch a command injection attack by sending some messages with malicious commands.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

VendorProductVersions
na / n/an/a

06Detection

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