Taiwanese company QNAP has released an update to fix a critical security flaw affecting Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices that could lead to arbitrary code injection.
tracked as CVE-2022-27596, the vulnerability is rated 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS score scale. This affects QTS 5.0.1 and QuTS hero h5.0.1.
“Exploitation of this vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject malicious code,” QNAP said in an advisory released on Monday.
Although the exact technical details regarding this vulnerability are unknown, the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD) classifies it as a SQL injection vulnerability.
This means that an attacker can send specially crafted SQL queries to weaponize, bypass security controls, and access or modify valuable information.
According to MITER, “Just as sensitive information can be read, it is also possible to modify or delete this information using SQL injection attacks.”
This vulnerability is addressed in versions QTS 5.0.1.2234 build 20221201 and later, and QuTS hero h5.0.1.2248 build 20221215 and later.
Published zero-day vulnerabilities in QNAP appliances are being leveraged by DeadBolt ransomware actors to infiltrate targeted networks, making it imperative to update to the latest version to mitigate potential threats .
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