Alta Video —1744: Password checker susceptible to enter an infinite loop

Release Date

10th of January 2025.

Overview

A vulnerability has been identified in the Alta Video password checker, due to an off-by-one error, that could cause an infinite loop.

Affected Products

• Alta Video:
  • All Stable upgrade channel versions before 6.9.5.
  • All Beta upgrade channel versions before 6.9.0.
• Avigilon Cloud-Native Cameras:
  • All Stable upgrade Channel versions before 6.9.5.
  • All Beta upgrade channel versions before 6.9.0.
• Alta Video Cloud: before 7th May 2024.

Unaffected Products

• Alta Video:

  • All Stable upgrade channel versions after and including 6.9.5.
  • All Beta upgrade channel versions after and including 6.9.0.

• Avigilon Cloud-Native Cameras:

  • All Stable upgrade channel versions after and including 6.9.5.
  • All Beta upgrade channel versions after and including 6.9.0.

• Alta Video Cloud: from 7th May 2024

Resolution

This issue has been fixed in Alta Video Beta upgrade channel version 6.9.0 and Stable upgrade channel version 6.9.5.

It is strongly recommended that all installations running an affected version are upgraded to the latest release as soon as possible. Releases are available to download through the Alta Video User Interface.

A fix was deployed to the Alta Video Cloud on 7th May 2024. Alta Video Cloud customers do not need to take any additional action.

This issue has been fixed in Avigilon Cloud-Native Cameras Beta upgrade channel version 6.9.0 and Stable upgrade channel version 6.9.5.

It is strongly recommended that all Avigilon Cloud-Native camera installations running an affected version upgrade to the latest release as soon as possible. Releases are available to download through the Alta Video User Interface for Avigilon Cloud-Native cameras and the Avigilon Cloud-Native Camera Interface for unmanaged cameras.

Vulnerability Information

• CVSSv3 score: 5.9 (Medium)
• CVSSv3 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Mitigations

There are no known mitigations for this issue.

Work arounds

There are no known work arounds for this issue.

Acknowledgements

Issue found internally by Avigilon Alta.

Disclosure Timeline

• 01/05/2024 Issue found
• 01/05/2024 Root cause established
• 02/05/2024 Fix identified
• 07/05/2024 Patched Alta Video Cloud released
• 21/05/2024 Patched Alta Video (Beta upgrade channel) released
• 01/07/2024 Patched Alta Video (Stable upgrade channel) released
• 21/05/2024 Patched Avigilon Cloud-Native Cameras (Beta upgrade channel) released
• 01/07/2024 Patched Avigilon Cloud-Native Cameras (Stable upgrade channel) released
• 10/01/2025 Vulnerability publicly disclosed