Acti develops network video recorders and embedded camera firmware for surveillance deployments, a niche product portfolio that skews toward serious outcomes with a notable share reaching critical severity. The vendor's disclosures frequently acquire public exploit code and recur through memory-safety and access-control weakness classes—hard-coded credentials, classic buffer overflows, path traversal, and sensitive-information exposure—that are endemic to resource-constrained embedded systems and reflect inadequate input validation in network-facing interfaces. Defenders should prioritize patches for internet-exposed NVR and camera devices; current severity, exploitation activity, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Acti over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (6 CVEs).
6 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2020-15956HIGH ActiveMediaServer.exe in ACTi NVR3 Standard Server 3.0.12.42 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to trigger a buffer overflow and application termination via a malformed payloa | Aug 4, 2020 | 7.5 | 40 | NO | YES |
CVE-2017-3186CRITICAL ACTi cameras including the D, B, I, and E series using firmware version A1D-500-V6.11.31-AC use non-random default credentials across all devices. A remote attacker can take comple | Dec 16, 2017 | 9.8 | 32 | NO | NO |
CVE-2007-4582HIGH Buffer overflow in the nvUnifiedControl.AUnifiedControl.1 ActiveX control in nvUnifiedControl.dll 1.1.45.0 in ACTi Network Video Recorder (NVR) SP2 2.0 allows remote attackers to e | Aug 29, 2007 | 7.5 | 32 | NO | YES |
CVE-2017-3185CRITICAL ACTi cameras including the D, B, I, and E series using firmware version A1D-500-V6.11.31-AC have a web application that uses the GET method to process requests that contain sensiti | Dec 16, 2017 | 9.8 | 31 | NO | NO |
CVE-2017-3184CRITICAL ACTi cameras including the D, B, I, and E series using firmware version A1D-500-V6.11.31-AC fail to properly restrict access to the factory reset page. An unauthenticated, remote a | Dec 16, 2017 | 9.8 | 26 | NO | NO |
CVE-2007-4583MEDIUM Multiple absolute path traversal vulnerabilities in the nvUtility.Utility.1 ActiveX control in nvUtility.dll 1.0.14.0 in ACTi Network Video Recorder (NVR) SP2 2.0 allow remote atta | Aug 29, 2007 | 5.0 | 25 | NO | YES |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (6 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Acti.
Media articles that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Acti — matched by CVE ID, not by vendor name.