Video Surveillance Operations ManagerApplication · Cisco
CVE-2013-3417
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe administrative web interface in Cisco Video Surveillance Operations Manager does not properly perform authentication, which allows remote attackers to watch video feeds via a crafted URL, aka Bug ID CSCtg72262.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceThe administrative web interface in Cisco Video Surveillance Operations Manager fails to properly perform authentication checks, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to access video feeds by constructing a specific URL. This is a direct authentication bypass vulnerability in the web application's access control logic.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Video Surveillance Operations ManagerApplication
all versionsCVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Authentication
- None
- Confidentiality
- Partial
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm Cisco Video Surveillance Operations Manager is installedCheck for presence of the application in the system or list running services related to Cisco Video SurveillanceAffected if The software is installed and running on the system
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Identify web interface exposureCheck if ports used by the web interface (commonly HTTP/HTTPS ports) are listening and accessible from the networkAffected if The administrative web interface is accessible over the network to untrusted users
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Test video feed URL access without credentialsAttempt to access the video feed URLs served by the application without providing any authentication credentialsAffected if Video feeds are accessible without any authentication token, session, or login
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Verify authentication enforcement on web endpointsInspect the web application's access control configuration to confirm all administrative and video feed endpoints require valid authenticationAffected if The application allows unauthenticated access to video feed URLs through direct URL construction
If Cisco Video Surveillance Operations Manager is running and its web interface or video feed URLs can be accessed without any authentication credentials, the environment is affected by CVE-2013-3417.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement proper authentication enforcement on all administrative web interface endpoints, ensuring that video feed URLs require valid authentication before granting access. Apply any available vendor patches for Cisco Video Surveillance Operations Manager.
Fix this in Video Surveillance Operations Manager
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2013-3417 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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