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CVE-2021-33045

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-33045 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting various Dahua products, including IP cameras, VTH, and VTO devices. Attackers can exploit this flaw by crafting malicious data packets during the login process, bypassing identity authentication. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical) and an EPSS score of 0.94171, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, allowing for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. It is actively exploited in the wild and has garnered significant community attention, though no Metasploit or ExploitDB modules are publicly available.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.820.0000000.5.r.210705CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:dahuasecurity:ipc-hum7xxx_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 2.800.0000000.29.r.210630CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:dahuasecurity:ipc-hx3xxx_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 2.820.0000000.5.r.210705CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:dahuasecurity:ipc-hx5xxx_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 4.001.0000005.1.r.210709CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:dahuasecurity:nvr-1xxx_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 4.001.0000000.1.r.210710CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:dahuasecurity:nvr-2xxx_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
99.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Aug 21, 2024
Nuclei: CVE-2021-33045 · Jun 10, 2025
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.9956 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
packetstormsecurity.com / files/164423/Dahua-Authentication-Bypass.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2021/Oct/13
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
dahuasecurity.com / support/cybersecurity/details/957
Vendor Advisory