CVE-2025-23117: An Insufficient Firmware Update Validation vulnerability could allow an authenticated malicious actor with access to UniFi Protect Cameras…
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 27/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.23% (FIRST EPSS).
- Someone on the same network segment can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- Fixed version: Ubiquiti Inc UniFi Protect Cameras 4.74.106.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to Ubiquiti Inc UniFi Protect Cameras 4.74.106 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
An Insufficient Firmware Update Validation vulnerability could allow an authenticated malicious actor with access to UniFi Protect Cameras adjacent network to make unsupported changes to the camera system.
- Published
- Feb 28, 2025
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.2% · 14th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-346
Report tools
Action score
27
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 27 / 40 · 6.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.2%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
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Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (hackerone). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Ubiquiti Inc UniFi Protect Cameras
- 4.74.106 and later · before 4.74.106affected · semver
Same product
ubiquiti inc: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2025-23123A malicious actor with access to the management network could execute a remote code execution (RCE) by exploiting a heap buffer overflow…40Plan
- CVE-2025-23115A Use After Free vulnerability on UniFi Protect Cameras could allow a Remote Code Execution (RCE) by a malicious actor with access to UniFi…36Monitor
- CVE-2025-23119An Improper Neutralization of Escape Sequences vulnerability could allow an Authentication Bypass with a Remote Code Execution (RCE) by a…30Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- Later →CVE-2025-23118Feb 28, 2025 · An Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability could allow an authenticated malicious actor with access to UniFi Protect Cameras adjacent…25Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Ubiquiti Inc UniFi Protect Cameras | 4.74.106 | Vendor (CNA) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
Not on record for this CVE: EPSS history · patch commit or PR link · researcher credit · variant or chain candidate · public bounty program.
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Someone on the same network segment can trigger it.
- Administrator privileges are required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Adjacent
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-346 · Origin Validation ErrorCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
- JSON Hijacking (aka JavaScript Hijacking)CAPEC-111likelihood: High · High
- Cache PoisoningCAPEC-141likelihood: High · High
- DNS Cache PoisoningCAPEC-142likelihood: High · High
- Exploit Script-Based APIsCAPEC-160Medium
- Exploitation of Trusted IdentifiersCAPEC-21likelihood: High · High
- Application API Message Manipulation via Man-in-the-MiddleCAPEC-384Low
- Transaction or Event Tampering via Application API ManipulationCAPEC-385Medium
- Application API Navigation RemappingCAPEC-386Medium
ATT&CK techniques
- Access Token ManipulationT1134
- Access Token Manipulation:Token Impersonation/TheftT1134.001
- Steal Application Access TokenT1528
- Steal Web Session CookieT1539
- Use Alternate Authentication Material:Web Session CookieT1550.004
- Adversary-in-the-Middle: ARP Cache PoisoningT1557.002
- Compromise Infrastructure: DNS ServerT1584.002
Change log (1)
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.