CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2017-14953 — Hikvision Ds-2Cd2432F-Iw Firmware security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.5

HikVision Wi-Fi IP cameras, when used in a wired configuration, allow physically proximate attackers to trigger association with an arbitrary access point by leveraging a default SSID with no WiFi encryption or authentication. NOTE: Vendor states that this is not a vulnerability, but more an increase to the attack surface of the product

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.5 (3.0)
Published
2017-12-01
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-311

Affected products

  • hikvision / ds-2cd2432f-iw_firmware

Matched remediation archetype

Cryptography, certificate, signature, and channel validation

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Check exposure

  • Inventory affected algorithms, key uses, trust stores, certificate validation settings, random sources, and plaintext channels across clients and services.
  • Determine which secrets, identities, signatures, or data protections depend on the affected primitive or validation path.
  • Check debug, compatibility, fallback, and hostname or audience override settings in build and runtime configuration.

Remediate safely

  • Use a maintained platform cryptographic API with approved algorithms, modes, parameters, randomness, and full peer identity validation.
  • Remove insecure fallback and validation bypasses; separate keys by purpose and load them from managed secret storage.
  • Plan rotation or reissuance for affected keys, certificates, tokens, hashes, or ciphertext and document compatibility sequencing.

Authoritative sources

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