CVE-2024-53691
A link following vulnerability has been reported to affect several QNAP operating system versions. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow remote attackers who have gained user access to traverse the file system to unintended locations. We have already fixed the vulnerability in the following versions: QTS 5.1.8.2823 build 20240712 and later QTS 5.2.0.2802 build 20240620 and later QuTS hero h5.1.8.2823 build 20240712 and later QuTS hero h5.2.0.2802 build 20240620 and later
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 8.7
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- EPSS probability
- 20.11%
- CWE
- CWE-59
- Published
- 2024-12-06
- Last modified
- 2026-03-13
Affected products
- QNAP Systems Inc. QTS
- QNAP Systems Inc. QTS
- QNAP Systems Inc. QuTS hero
- QNAP Systems Inc. QuTS hero
Weakness type
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