Ah55b08 FirmwareOperating system · Meritlilin

CVE-2022-47618

CRITICAL · 9.8 CVSS v3.1 Published 2023-01-03
Mitigation only
No fix yet — a mitigation exists. There is no fixed release. A documented workaround reduces exposure in the meantime.
See remediation →
100/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click

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 · unedited
Merit LILIN AH55B04 & AH55B08 DVR firm has hard-coded administrator credentials. An unauthenticated remote attacker can use these credentials to log in administrator page, to manipulate system or disrupt service.

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 confidence

The Merit LILIN AH55B04 and AH55B08 digital video recorders ship with hard-coded administrator credentials embedded in the firmware. These credentials allow any unauthenticated remote attacker to access the administrative web interface and gain full control over the device, enabling system manipulation or service disruption.

MitigationIf available, apply firmware updates that remove hard-coded credentials; otherwise, restrict network access to the device via firewall or VLAN segmentation, and monitor for unauthorized access attempts.

Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.

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
Ah55b08 FirmwareOperating system
Affected:all versions
Ah55b04 FirmwareOperating system
Affected:all versions

CVSS 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
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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 checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Identify Merit LILIN DVR devices on your network
    Scan your network for devices with product identifiers 'AH55B04' or 'AH55B08', or look for Merit LILIN vendor strings in DHCP logs, network scans, or asset inventories
    Affected if Any AH55B04 or AH55B08 device is found on the network
  2. Locate the administrative web interface
    Perform a port scan on identified devices looking for HTTP (port 80) or HTTPS (port 443) services, or check for the LILIN web interface default paths
    Affected if The administrative web interface is accessible on the device
  3. Check network exposure of the management interface
    Determine if the device web interface is reachable from untrusted networks, VPNs, or the public internet by reviewing firewall rules, NAT configurations, and access control lists
    Affected if The web interface is exposed to networks outside the trusted internal network
  4. Verify firmware version if accessible
    If the web interface is accessible, log in and navigate to the firmware or system information page to confirm the exact firmware version
    Affected if The device runs any firmware version (all versions are affected)

You are affected if you have any Merit LILIN AH55B04 or AH55B08 device with its administrative web interface accessible on your network.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

Check your environment

Paste your version and any relevant configuration and it will be compared against the affected criteria above. Do not include secrets or credentials.

AI-assisted, checked against the advisory. Informational, not a guarantee.

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 data
Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime
Mitigation

If available, apply firmware updates that remove hard-coded credentials; otherwise, restrict network access to the device via firewall or VLAN segmentation, and monitor for unauthorized access attempts.

Fix this in Ah55b08 Firmware Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation3.0 h
  • Implementation4.0 h
  • Testing2.0 h
  • Review / QA2.0 h
11.0 hours of engineering $1,980
Get help mitigating

An estimate, not a bill — we confirm scope with you before any work starts. Need it this week? Rush from $3,168.

Scan for this in your stack

Free · runs locally
dbcve dependency scanner

Check whether your project pulls in CVE-2022-47618 — or any other known-vulnerable package — straight from your lock files. Free and open source; it runs locally and uploads nothing.

References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.

Primary sources

Practitioner notes

Contributed

Peer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2022-47618 in production — separate from our analysis above.

No notes yet

Be the first to add a field note for this CVE — a mitigation you’ve verified, a version caveat, or a link to a working fix. Sign in above to contribute.

What this is

A place for practitioners to share what actually worked: a mitigation you’ve tested, a configuration change, a version- or environment-specific caveat, or a link to a verified patch. The most useful notes rise to the top as peers upvote them, so the signal stays high.

What belongs here
  • Verified mitigations, workarounds, and config changes
  • Version or environment caveats, and links to real fixes
  • No weaponised exploit code, or anything meant to cause harm
  • No spam, self-promotion, credentials, or personal data