Security News > 2024 > August > Unpatched AVTECH IP Camera Flaw Exploited by Hackers for Botnet Attacks
2024-08-29 11:05
A years-old high-severity flaw impacting AVTECH IP cameras has been weaponized by malicious actors as a zero-day to rope them into a botnet. CVE-2024-7029 (CVSS score: 8.7), the vulnerability in question, is a "command injection vulnerability found in the brightness function of AVTECH closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras that allows for remote code execution (RCE)," Akamai researchers Kyle
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-02 | CVE-2024-7029 | Command Injection vulnerability in Avtech Avm1203 Firmware Commands can be injected over the network and executed without authentication. | 9.8 |