CVE-2024-8956 — Pt30x-Ndi-Xx-G2 Firmware
CRITICALCVE-2024-8956 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.1) Missing Authentication vulnerability in ptzoptics pt30x-ndi-xx-g2 firmware. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-11-04) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
PTZOptics PT30X-SDI/NDI-xx before firmware 6.3.40 is vulnerable to an insufficient authentication issue. The camera does not properly enforce authentication to /cgi-bin/param.cgi when…
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-11-04. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2024-11-25.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2024-8956.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-8956 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). In the shaded patch-first corner (EPSS 50%+, CVSS 7.0+).
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the 50–90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
PTZOptics PT30X-SDI/NDI-xx before firmware 6.3.40 is vulnerable to an insufficient authentication issue. The camera does not properly enforce authentication to /cgi-bin/param.cgi when requests are sent without an HTTP Authorization header. The result is a remote and unauthenticated attacker can leak sensitive data such as usernames, password hashes, and configurations details. Additionally, the attacker can update individual configuration values or overwrite the whole file.
Affected Products
pt30x-ndi-xx-g2 firmwareptzopticspt30x-sdi firmwareptzopticsResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every ptzoptics pt30x-ndi-xx-g2 firmware deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2024-8956 yet — track the ptzoptics pt30x-ndi-xx-g2 firmware advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-8956 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.