CVE-2024-8956
CWE-306
99.2
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
PTZOptics PT30X-SDI/NDI-xx before firmware 6.3.40 is vulnerable to an insufficient authentication issue. The camera does not properly enforce authentication to /cgi-bin/param.cgi when requests are sent without an HTTP Authorization header. The result is a remote and unauthenticated attacker can leak sensitive data such as usernames, password hashes, and configurations details. Additionally, the attacker can update individual configuration values or overwrite the whole file.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 9.1
- Critical · v3.1
- EPSS
- 58.78%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Nov 2024
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-306
- CWE-306, CWE-287
- Published
- 17 Sept 2024
- Last modified 27 Oct 2025
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time