Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessGain local/adjacent network access
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ExploitLocate camera snapshot endpoint
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ExecutionSend unauthenticated snapshot request
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ImpactRetrieve live-feed image (privacy breach)
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A07:2025 - Authentication Failures
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Authentication required for critical functions
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | The attacker must already have a network position on the same local/adjacent network segment as the SWIFI-SE2KIC camera - for example a device on the home LAN or the camera's Wi-Fi network - and the device must be running firmware 2.0.22 or earlier. Once on that network, no further prerequisites apply: the snapshot function is exposed without any authentication, credentials, or user interaction, so it is exploitable against default configurations. The primary LIMITING factor is this required network adjacency: the flaw is not exploitable directly from the internet unless the camera is deliberately port-forwarded or otherwise exposed externally, which substantially narrows the realistic attacker population to those who have already breached the local network. |
| Impact | This is a moderate, privacy-focused risk rather than a top-tier emergency. The strongest signals are that exploitation requires NO authentication (PR:N), NO user interaction (UI:N), and LOW complexity (AC:L), meaning any attacker with the required network position can trivially pull a snapshot of the camera's live feed - a direct confidentiality breach (VC:H) of an inherently sensitive data source. However, several factors cap the real-world severity: the input CVSS 4.0 score is only 6.9 (medium), there is NO EPSS probability, NO CISA KEV listing, and NO public exploit provided, so this is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis' and should not be treated as actively exploited. CONFLICT TO VERIFY: the description explicitly states the attacker must be 'on the local network' (adjacent/LAN position), yet the provided CVSS vector uses AV:L (Local), not AV:A (Adjacent) - these are inconsistent; AV:A is the better fit for a LAN-reachable snapshot endpoint, and this discrepancy should be verified with the vendor/ICS-CERT. Impact is limited to confidentiality of the video feed only (VI:N/VA:N) - no code execution, tampering, or denial of service - so overall this is a meaningful privacy/surveillance-exposure issue that warrants patching, but not an internet-wide, remotely-wormable crisis. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who has gained a foothold on the same local network as the camera (e.g., via a compromised IoT device, a guest Wi-Fi network, or a rogue access point) sends an unauthenticated request to the device's snapshot function and receives a still image of the live video feed, breaching the occupant's privacy. Because no authentication, credentials, or user interaction are required (PR:N/UI:N/AC:L), the request succeeds against a default configuration. No public proof-of-concept was provided in the source data. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 13, 2026
Unauthenticated snapshot retrieval in Swann Communications SWIFI-SE2KIC camera firmware 2.0.22 and earlier lets any device already positioned on the same local or adjacent network segment pull a still image of the camera's live video feed without credentials or user interaction. The flaw is a missing-authentication-for-critical-function weakness (CWE-306) in the snapshot endpoint, and the assessed impact is confidentiality-only (C:H with I:N/A:N), so the exposure is a privacy/surveillance-data leak rather than code execution or denial of service. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and the CVE is not tied to confirmed active exploitation; the practical attacker population is narrow because a network foothold on the camera's LAN or Wi-Fi is required, and the device is not reachable from the internet unless it has been deliberately port-forwarded or otherwise exposed.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch was identified in the available data at time of analysis, so remediation currently depends on confirming a fixed firmware release directly with Swann and monitoring CISA advisory ICSA-26-286-02 (https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-26-286-02) for an updated version beyond 2.0.22 before applying it. Until a fix is confirmed, the most effective compensating control is network isolation: place the camera on a dedicated VLAN or guest SSID that has no routing to other LAN segments, workstations, or NAS devices, accepting that this can break app-based local discovery and cross-subnet remote viewing. Second, remove any port-forwarding, UPnP/NAT-PMP mapping, or DMZ entry that makes the camera reachable from untrusted networks, and disable remote-access/cloud features where they are not required - the trade-off is loss of off-site viewing. Third, if isolation is impractical, apply host or router firewall rules that block inbound access to the camera's HTTP/streaming ports except from a designated management host, and enable logging so repeated unauthenticated snapshot requests can be detected. Rotate the camera's Wi-Fi credentials and any web-interface password so that a previously leaked credential does not compound the missing-authentication path, and treat any footage from an affected camera as potentially exposed for privacy and incident-response purposes. Where retaining the device is unavoidable, disabling the snapshot feature entirely (if the firmware exposes such a toggle) removes the vulnerable function at the cost of losing on-demand still images.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The affected component is the integrated firmware of the Swann SWIFI-SE2KIC IP camera, tracked by CPE cpe:2.3:a:swann_communications:swifi-se2kic:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* and reported through CISA's ICS advisory channel (ICSA-26-286-02), which places it in the consumer/industrial IoT video-surveillance class rather than general-purpose server software. The root cause is CWE-306, Missing Authentication for Critical Function: a function that returns security-relevant data - here a snapshot of the live video stream - is exposed on the network without any authentication check, so no credentials, session token, or user action is needed to invoke it. The published CVSS v4.0 vector (6.9, AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N) describes a low-complexity, no-privilege, no-interaction attack with a high confidentiality impact and no integrity or availability effect; our independent assessment, expressed in CVSS v3.1 as AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N, frames the same defect as adjacent-network reachable with no authentication required and likewise confidentiality-only. In both readings the pre-condition is network adjacency to the camera - the same home LAN, guest network, or Wi-Fi SSID the camera is joined to - with no secondary authentication or user-interaction barrier once that position is obtained.
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Severity by source
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description states LAN-only access so AV:A (not AV:L); no auth or interaction gives PR:N/UI:N/AC:L; impact is loss of the private video feed only, so C:H with I:N/A:N.
Primary rating from Vendor (icscert).
CVSS VectorVendor: icscert
DescriptionCVE.org
SWIFI-SE2KIC firmware versions 2.0.22 and prior are vulnerable to a Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability that could allow an attacker on the local network to retrieve a snapshot of the live feed without authentication.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
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