Alta-Aware-647: Base64 image of excluded object included in camera logs

Release Date

29th November 2023.

Overview

The camera logs would include base64 encoded images of excluded objects. This allowed users who would ordinarily not have access to any video footage, but who did have access to the camera logs, to view snapshot snippets of the video that had been marked as an excluded object.

Affected Products

  • Ava Cameras:
    • All Stable upgrade Channel versions before 4.9.4.
    • All Beta upgrade channel versions before 4.9.3.

Unaffected Products

  • Ava Aware: all versions.
  • Ava Cameras:
    • All Stable upgrade channel versions after and including 4.9.4.
    • All Beta upgrade channel versions after and including 4.9.3.
  • Ava Cloud: all versions.

Resolution

This issue has been fixed in Ava Camera Beta upgrade channel version 4.9.3 and Stable upgrade channel version 4.9.4.

It is recommended that all Avigilon Alta camera installations running an affected version upgrade to the latest release as soon as possible. Releases are available to download through the Alta Aware User Interface for Ava managed cameras and the Avigilon Alta Camera User Interface for unmanaged Ava cameras.

Vulnerability Information

Mitigations

There are no known mitigations for this issue.

Work arounds

There are no known work arounds for this issue.

Acknowledgements

Issue found internally by Ava Security.

Disclosure Timeline

  • 18/05/2022 Issue found internally by Ava Security
  • 19/05/2022 Root cause established
  • 20/05/2022 Fix identified
  • 25/05/2022 Patched Ava Cameras (Beta upgrade channel) released
  • 07/06/2022 Patched Ava Cameras (Stable upgrade channel) released
  • 30/11/2023 Vulnerability publicly disclosed