CVE-2017-8228

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-8228
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-07-03 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2019-07-11 02:28:00 UTC
DescriptionAmcrest IPM-721S V2.420.AC00.16.R.20160909 devices mishandle reboots within the past two hours. Amcrest cloud services does not perform a thorough verification when allowing the user to add a new camera to the user's account to ensure that the user actually owns the camera other than knowing the serial number of the camera. This can allow an attacker who knows the serial number to easily add another user's camera to an attacker's cloud account and control it completely. This is possible in case of any camera that is currently not a part of an Amcrest cloud account or has been removed from the user's cloud account. Also, another requirement for a successful attack is that the user should have rebooted the camera in the last two hours. However, both of these conditions are very likely for new cameras that are sold over the Internet at many ecommerce websites or vendors that sell the Amcrest products. The successful attack results in an attacker being able to completely control the camera which includes being able to view and listen on what the camera can see, being able to change the motion detection settings and also be able to turn the camera off without the user being aware of it. Note: The same attack can be executed using the Amcrest Cloud mobile application.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Amcrest Ipm-721s - All All All
Hardware Amcrest Ipm-721s - All All All
Operating System Amcrest Ipm-721s Firmware All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Amcrest IPM-721S Credential Disclosure / Privilege Escalation ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Bugtraq: Newly releases IoT security issues BUGTRAQ seclists.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
IoT_vulnerabilities/Amcrest_sec_issues.pdf at master · ethanhunnt/IoT_vulnerabilities · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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