Ava-602: Permissions not enforced for viewing video in Ava Aware

Release Date

14th March 2022.

Overview

Any authenticated Ava Aware user could view live video and view historic video from any camera in the deployment regardless of their permissions.

Affected Products

• Ava Aware:
  • All Stable upgrade channel versions before 4.4.4.
  • All Beta upgrade channel versions before 4.5.1.

Unaffected Products

• Ava Aware:
  • All Stable upgrade channel versions after and including 4.4.4.
  • All Beta upgrade channel versions after and including 4.5.1.
• Ava cameras: all versions.
• Ava Cloud: all versions.

Resolution

This issue has been fixed in Ava Aware Beta upgrade channel version 4.5.1 and Stable upgrade channel version 4.4.4. 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.

Vulnerability Information

• CVE: pending
• CVSSv3 score: 6.5 (Medium)
• CVSSv3 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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 Ava Security.

Disclosure Timeline

• 16/12/2021 Issue found internally by Ava Security
• 16/12/2021 Root cause established
• 16/12/2021 Fix identified
• 17/12/2021 Patched Ava Aware (Beta upgrade channel) released
• 17/12/2021 Preliminary vulnerability advisory published
• 20/12/2021 Patched Ava Aware (Stable upgrade channel) released
• 14/03/2022 Vulnerability publicly disclosed