Administrative takeover via hard-coded remote-service credentials
Published Sep 5, 2025 · Updated Sep 8, 2025
Hard-coded credentials in ValueHD-based PTZ cameras allow remote attackers to gain administrative access through exposed SSH or telnet. The firmware assigns fixed administrative passwords to services listening on network interfaces and provides no user control to change the passwords or disable the services. Network reachability is sufficient for camera control and access to sensitive video or configuration data after the readily cracked credentials are recovered.
Summary
What happened
Hard-coded credentials in ValueHD-based PTZ cameras allow remote attackers to gain administrative access through exposed SSH or telnet. The firmware assigns fixed administrative passwords to services listening on network interfaces and provides no user control to change the passwords or disable the services. Network reachability is sufficient for camera control and access to sensitive video or configuration data after the readily cracked credentials are recovered.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-35451
- Published
- Sep 5, 2025
- Updated
- Sep 8, 2025
- Vendor
- PTZOptics
- Product
- PT12X-STUDIO-4K G3
- Classifications
- CWE-798, T1021.004, T1078.001
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 5, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 8, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <8.1.90
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