Alta Video — 1613: Temporary denial of service by passing large string to camera microphone settings
Release Date
10th February 2025.
Overview
A denial-of-service vulnerability has been identified in the web interface of the camera. An authenticated attacker can crash the device by submitting an excessively large string to the microphone settings. This attack causes an out-of-memory error, resulting in temporary device unavailability. The vulnerability stems from the web interface's failure to properly handle oversized input.
Affected Products
- Avigilon Cloud-Native Cameras:
- All Stable upgrade Channel versions before 7.3.7.
- All Beta upgrade channel versions before 7.3.0.
Unaffected Products
- Alta Video: all versions.
- Avigilon Cloud-Native Cameras:
- All Stable upgrade channel versions after and including 7.3.7.
- ll Beta upgrade channel versions after and including 7.3.0.
- Alta Video Cloud: all versions.
Resolution
This issue has been fixed in Avigilon Cloud-Native Cameras Beta upgrade channel version 7.3.0 and Stable upgrade channel version 7.3.7.
It is *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
Vulnerability Information
- CVSSv3 score: 2.4 (Low)
- CVSSv3 vector: [CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L](https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Mitigations
There are no known mitigations for this issue.
Work arounds
There are no known work arounds for this issue.
Acknowledgements
Issue found during an external pentest.
Disclosure Timeline
- 02/08/2024 Issue found
- 04/09/2024 Root cause established
- 05/09/2024 Fix identified
- 04/12/2024 Patched Avigilon Cloud-Native Cameras (Beta upgrade channel) released
- 27/01/2025 Patched Avigilon Cloud-Native Cameras (Stable upgrade channel) released
- 10/02/2025 Vulnerability publicly disclosed
