🛡️ CVE-2026-16843

🟠 CVSS 7.2 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-78 NVD
7.2
CVSS Score
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Description

Some Hikvision Networking Products are vulnerable to authenticated command execution due to insufficient input validation. Attackers with valid credentials can exploit this flaw by sending crafted packets containing malicious commands to affected devices, leading to arbitrary command execution.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-16843 is classified as CWE-78: OS Command Injection. Untrusted input reaches a shell command without neutralisation, so an attacker can run arbitrary operating system commands.

Affected software

CVE-2026-16843 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 31 July 2026 and last revised on 3 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.hikvision.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.2
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-78
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-31
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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