Alta Video — 1949: Vulnerability in Go toolchain could allow arbitrary commands via crafted repositories

Release Date

16th of September 2025.

Overview

A vulnerability was discovered in the Go toolchain, which could have allowed malicious actors to execute arbitrary commands via crafted repositories.

Affected Products

  • Alta Video:
    • All Stable upgrade channel versions before 7.7.4.
    • All Beta upgrade channel versions before 7.7.4.
  • Avigilon Cloud-Native Cameras:
    • All Stable upgrade Channel versions before 7.7.4.
    • All Beta upgrade channel versions before 7.7.4 .
  • Alta Video Cloud: before  12th July 2025.

Unaffected Products

  • Alta Video:

    • All Stable upgrade channel versions after and including 7.7.4.
    • All Beta upgrade channel versions after and including 7.7.4.
  • Avigilon Cloud-Native Cameras:

    • All Stable upgrade channel versions after and including 7.7.4.
    • All Beta upgrade channel versions after and including 7.7.4 .
  • Alta Video Cloud: from  12th July 2025

Resolution

This issue has been fixed in Alta Video Beta upgrade channel version 7.7.4 and Stable upgrade channel version 7.7.4.

It is highly 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  12th July 2025. 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 7.7.4  and Stable upgrade channel version 7.7.4.

It is highly 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

Mitigations

There are no known mitigations for this issue.

Work arounds

There are no known work arounds for this issue.

Acknowledgements

Issue reported by the Go team.

Disclosure Timeline

  • 08/07/2025 Issue found
  • 09/07/2025 Root cause established
  • 10/07/2025 Fix identified
  • 12/07/2025 Patched Alta Video Cloud released
  • 21/08/2025 Patched Alta Video (Beta upgrade channel) released
  • 26/08/2025 Patched Alta Video (Stable upgrade channel) released
  • 21/08/2025 Patched Avigilon Cloud-Native Cameras (Beta upgrade channel) released
  • 26/08/2025 Patched Avigilon Cloud-Native Cameras (Stable upgrade channel) released
  • 16/09/2025 Vulnerability publicly disclosed