How severe is CVE-2024-8957?

CVE-2024-8957 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.2 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 79.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2024-8957: PTZOptics NDI and SDI Cameras Command Injection via

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

PTZOptics PT30X-SDI/NDI Cameras OS Command Injection Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2024-11-04

Remediation due

2024-11-25

Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

CISA notes
https://ptzoptics.com/firmware-changelog/ ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8957

Description

PTZOptics PT30X-SDI/NDI-xx before firmware 6.3.40 is vulnerable to an OS command injection issue. The camera does not sufficiently validate the ntp_addr configuration value which may lead to arbitrary command execution when ntp_client is started. When chained with CVE-2024-8956, a remote and unauthenticated attacker can execute arbitrary OS commands on affected devices.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CNA7.2 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
PTZOptics	PT30X-SDI	0 to <6.3.40
PTZOptics	PT30X-NDI	0 to <6.3.40

References

2 Links

Vendor advisories

https://ptzoptics.com/firmware-changelog/

Third-party advisories

https://vulncheck.com/advisories/ptzoptics-command-injection

Record Details

Published

2024-09-17

Last updated

2025-12-27

Assigner (CNA)

VulnCheck

Credited to

Konstantin Lazarev of GreyNoise

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