CVE-2024-8956 is a critical insufficient authentication vulnerability affecting PTZOptics PT30X-SDI/NDI-xx cameras running firmware older than 6.3.40. This flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication for /cgi-bin/param.cgi, enabling them to leak sensitive data like usernames, password hashes, and configuration details, or even modify configuration files. With a CVSS score of 9.1 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires no user interaction, leading to high confidentiality and integrity impacts. Notably, this CVE is actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog, and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, despite no public exploit code being readily available on platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 6.3.40CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ptzoptics:pt30x-sdi_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 6.3.40CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ptzoptics:pt30x-ndi-xx-g2_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:N
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.