CVE-2018-8926 Privilege escalation in Photo Station

What is CVE-2018-8926?

CVE-2018-8926 is a high-severity vulnerability in Synology Photo Station, published on 8 Jun 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Permissive regular expression vulnerability in synophoto_dsm_user in Synology Photo Station before 6.8.5-3471 and before 6.3-2975 allows remote authenticated users to conduct privilege escalation attacks via the fullname parameter.

Weakness: CWE-625

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-8926?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Synology Photo Station.

How do I fix CVE-2018-8926?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-8926 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2018-8926 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-8926 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
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-mr65-chc3-q36v.