Hikvision fixed a critical flaw in Hybrid SAN and cluster storage products

Chinese video surveillance giant Hikvision addressed a critical vulnerability in its Hybrid SAN and cluster storage products.

Chinese video surveillance giant Hikvision addressed an access control vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-28808, affecting its Hybrid SAN and cluster storage products.

An attacker with network access to the device can exploit the issue to obtain admin permission. The attacker can exploit the vulnerability by sending crafted messages to vulnerable devices.

“Some Hikvision Hybrid SAN/Cluster Storage products have an access control vulnerability which can be used to obtain the admin permission. The attacker can exploit the vulnerability by sending crafted messages to the affected devices.” reads the advisory published by the company.

The vulnerability was reported in December 2022 by Souvik Kandar, Arko Dhar of the Redinent Innovations team in India.

On April 10, Hikvision released version 2.3.8-8 for Hybrid SAN and version 1.1.4 for cluster storage devices to address the vulnerability.

According to SecurityWeek, the vendor is not aware of attacks in the wild exploiting the vulnerability and is urging customers to patch their installations.

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.