CVE-2014-4880

high

Published 2014-12-08 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.5

Description

Buffer overflow in Hikvision DVR DS-7204 Firmware 2.2.10 build 131009, and other models and versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an RTSP PLAY request with a long Authorization header.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-35356 remote linux verified

Metasploit · 2014-11-24

Hikvision DVR - RTSP Request Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_linux/misc/hikvision_rtsp_bof rank 300

Hikvision DVR RTSP Request Remote Code Execution

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.