CVE-2021-36260 is a critical command injection vulnerability affecting the web server of various Hikvision products, stemming from insufficient input validation. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands by sending specially crafted messages. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) and an EPSS score indicating extremely high exploitability, successful exploitation can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, with public exploit modules available in Metasploit and Nuclei, and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, including its use by botnets like Moobot.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hikvision:ds-2cd2026g2-iu\/sl_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hikvision:ds-2cd2046g2-iu\/sl_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hikvision:ds-2cd2066g2-i\(u\)_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hikvision:ds-2cd2066g2-iu\/sl_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hikvision:ds-2cd2086g2-i\(u\)_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.