CVE-2017-16772 Code injection in Photo Station

What is CVE-2017-16772?

CVE-2017-16772 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Synology Photo Station, published on 22 Mar 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Improper input validation vulnerability in SYNOPHOTO_Flickr_MultiUpload in Synology Photo Station before 6.8.3-3463 and before 6.3-2971 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary codes via the prog_id parameter.

Weakness: CWE-20, CWE-434

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-16772?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Synology Photo Station.

How do I fix CVE-2017-16772?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-16772 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2017-16772 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-16772 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Synology Photo Station

• CVE-2021-29089 SQL injection in Synology Photo Station Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-11161 SQL injection in Synology Photo Station Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-11151 File upload in Synology Photo Station Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-11153 Deserialization in Synology Photo Station Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-10329 Command injection in Synology Photo Station Critical 9.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-xx5j-hg4j-w6fh.