Hikvision Multiple Products Improper Authentication Vulnerability

Hikvision Multiple Products

Multiple Hikvision products contain an improper authentication vulnerability that could allow a malicious user to escalate privileges on the system and gain access to sensitive information. Added to CISA KEV on 2026-03-05 (federal deadline 2026-03-26).

First seen: 5 Mar 2026
Last update: 5 Mar 2026, 12:00 UTC
Identifiers: CVE-2017-7921
Source: CISA KEV

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## Hikvision Multiple Products Improper Authentication Vulnerability
Severity: high, exploited in the wild. Patch status: patched.
Affected: Hikvision Multiple Products
Ids: CVE-2017-7921

Multiple Hikvision products contain an improper authentication vulnerability that could allow a malicious user to escalate privileges on the system and gain access to sensitive information. Added to CISA KEV on 2026-03-05 (federal deadline 2026-03-26).

## Steps
1. Search the repo, its CI and infra config for Hikvision Multiple Products. If present, report the version in use and whether it's affected.

## Report
A table: file, product or package, version in use, affected yes/no, exact fix. Then anything a human has to check outside the repo.

If you have the pwned.coffee MCP server (https://pwned.coffee/mcp), call lookup_cve("CVE-2017-7921") for the latest, and check_repo with this repo's lockfiles, Dockerfiles and workflows for a full receipt.
Sources: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7921 https://www.hikvision.com/us-en/support/document-center/special-notices/privilege-escalating-vulnerability-in-certain-hikvision-ip-cameras/
https://pwned.coffee/i/hikvision-multiple-products-improper-authentication-vuln-cve-2017-7921

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