Hikvision and Rockwell: Because Patching Is Apparently Fucking Optional

Oh for fuck’s sake. Look what the cat dragged in—another pair of CVSS 9.8 critical vulnerabilities that have been festering in the wild like gangrene while you lot were busy changing your desktop wallpapers and arguing about whether pineapple belongs on pizza. Hikvision and Rockwell Automation decided to grace us with command injection flaws so severe they make Swiss cheese look like fucking Fort Knox.

Those Hikvision cameras you’ve got pointing at the car park, the server room, and the CEO’s favorite parking spot? Yeah, they’re now owned by every script kiddie from here to Vladivostok. We’re talking unauthenticated command injection, which is fancy-talk for “any spotty wanker with a curl command can root your shit and turn your surveillance network into a goddamn DDoS botnet.” CVSS 9.8 means it’s basically game over, but sure, leave them unpatched for another six months because “the change control board meets next quarter.” It’s not like you’re running a fucking security operation or anything.

And then there’s Rockwell Automation—oh sweet merciful fuck. Industrial control systems with a 9.8 CVSS score. Their FactoryTalk software (or whatever they’re calling their pile of legacy spaghetti code this week) has vulnerabilities that let remote attackers execute arbitrary commands with system privileges. Because what could possibly go wrong with pwned SCADA systems? It’s not like they control power grids, water treatment facilities, or chemical plants or anything fucking mission-critical, right? Go ahead, wait for the vendor’s quarterly maintenance window. I’m sure the threat actors will respect your change management calendar while they’re busy draining your intellectual property.

CISA, in a rare display of competence, shoved both of these turds into the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which means they’re being actively exploited by people who actually know what they’re doing (unlike you lot in IT). Federal agencies have approximately two weeks to patch or explain to Congress why their network infrastructure is now a fucking cryptocurrency mine for North Korean ransomware gangs. But hey, your paperwork tribulations are probably more important than not getting absolutely shafted by Ivan and his merry band of hackers.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/hikvision-and-rockwell-automation-cvss.html

Reminds me of the time I rerouted the datacenter HVAC through the email server because some genius thought “Password123!” was acceptable for domain admin credentials. Nothing motivates urgent patching like watching the CTO’s office turn into a tropical greenhouse while the Exchange server fans scream louder than a dying cat at 95°C. The thermal throttling made mail delivery slower than a moron trying to solve a Rubik’s cube, but by God, those security patches got approved faster than you can say “resume updating.” Sometimes you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette, and sometimes you have to melt a few hard drives to make a fucking security policy stick.

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