scada-hikvision-isapi

scada-hikvision-isapi is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from uphiago/recon-skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (2,583 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A guide for finding Hikvision ISAPI routes, which are API addresses used by Hikvision cameras, surveillance systems, and some industrial-control deployments.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inspect Hikvision web interfaces and related services such as RTSP or ONVIF using tools including curl, Python, and Nmap.
Why use it?
It helps reveal the device type, firmware information, available modules, and exposed API surface during an authorized assessment, even when login is required for most routes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps inspect Hikvision web interfaces and related services such as RTSP or ONVIF using tools including curl, Python, and Nmap.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uphiago/recon-skills/scada-hikvision-isapi
About the project

Recon Skills is a pack of security-testing skills covering reconnaissance, web applications, APIs, authentication, vulnerability validation, cloud infrastructure, and reporting. Security professionals use it for authorized assessments of systems they own or have written permission to test. The catalogue entries are individual skills from the pack.

uphiago/recon-skills · 1,251 stars · on GitHub · hiago.sh

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add uphiago/recon-skills --skill scada-hikvision-isapi
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uphiago/recon-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,583 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Supply Chain · line 57
    Remote code is downloaded and executed. This bypasses code review and could introduce malicious code.
    Fix: Avoid downloading and executing remote scripts. Use trusted packages from PyPI/npm. If remote fetch is required, verify checksums and use HTTPS.
  • high YARA Match · line 201
    YARA rule matched a hack tool or exploit indicator (offensive tools, reconnaissance, privilege escalation, or exploit frameworks).
    Fix: Remove offensive tool references and exploit code. Legitimate agent skills should not contain penetration testing tools, exploit frameworks, or reconnaissance utilities.
  • medium Tool Misuse · line 69
    Tool defaults are unsafe or overly permissive (e.g. disabled TLS verification, no authentication, world-writable permissions). Unsafe defaults widen the attack surface.
    Fix: Override unsafe defaults with secure settings (verify=True, auth required, restrictive permissions). Review and harden all tool configurations.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 130
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 169
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00024 $0.02583
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01291
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00517
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00258

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3a1e568e787a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

scada-hikvision-isapi scanned grade C with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl --max-time 30 --connect-timeout 10 -sk "https://TARGET:PORT/" | python3 -c "

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

compatibility: Requires curl, nmap, python3
recon/scada-hikvision-isapi/SKILL.md · 218 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SCADA Hikvision ISAPI Enumeration

Enumerate Hikvision ISAPI (Intelligent Security Application Programming Interface) endpoints on industrial control and surveillance web interfaces. Hikvision devices and HikCentral Professional deployments expose a rich REST/XML API at predictable paths. While most endpoints require authentication (CAS session token, Basic auth, or Digest auth), unauthenticated enumeration reveals the device type, firmware baseline, available modules, and potential attack surface. JavaScript bundles often contain the full ISAPI route tree.

When to Use

  • A web interface on a non-standard port (443, 8443, 9443) loads a large JavaScript bundle with references to /ISAPI/, Bumblebee, or Streaming/channels.
  • Port scan reveals RTSP (554), ONVIF (8899), or Hikvision-specific ports (8000, 9010).
  • The server header or SSL certificate references Hikvision, HikCentral, iVMS, or Pyramid.
  • A target has industrial/energy/infrastructure context where SCADA systems are likely.
  • The web client loads Common/common.js, Common/components.js, or Common/vendorGraph.js from a relative path.

Prerequisites

  • terminal with curl, python3, and nmap.
  • Access to the web interface (even without authentication).
  • The target serves JavaScript bundles — download them for endpoint extraction.

Quick Detection

# Fingerprint the web interface
curl --max-time 30 --connect-timeout 10 -skI "https://TARGET:PORT/" | grep -iE "server|x-powered"

# Download the main JS bundle and scan for ISAPI endpoints
curl --max-time 30 --connect-timeout 10 -sk "https://TARGET:PORT/" | grep -Eo 'src="([^"]+\.js[^"]*)"' | while read -r match; do
  js_url=$(echo "$match" | grep -Eo '(\./[^"]+\.js[^"]*|/[^"]+\.js[^"]*)')
  [ -n "$js_url" ] && curl --max-time 30 --connect-timeout 10 -sk "https://TARGET:PORT$js_url" | grep -Eo '/ISAPI/[^"'\''\s]{5,80}' | sort -u
done

Procedure

Phase 1 — Endpoint Extraction from JS Bundles

Hikvision web clients embed the complete API route tree in JavaScript:

Read the full file on GitHub · 218 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 218 lines · 24 tokens per session scan C 3a1e568e787a

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scada-hikvision-isapi is a skill published in the GitHub repository uphiago/recon-skills (1,251 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 2,583 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.