CVE-2020-2508 Command Injection Vulnerability in QTS and QuTS hero

What is CVE-2020-2508?

CVE-2020-2508 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Qnap Qts, published on 11 Jan 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A command injection vulnerability has been reported to affect QTS and QuTS hero. If exploited, this vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands in a compromised application. QNAP have already fixed this vulnerability in the following versions: QTS 4.5.1.1456 build 20201015 (and later) QuTS hero h4.5.1.1472 build 20201031 (and later)

Weakness: CWE-78, CWE-77

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-2508?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Qnap Qts, Qnap Quts Hero.

How do I fix CVE-2020-2508?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-2508 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2020-2508 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-2508 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Qnap Qts

• CVE-2020-2509 QNAP Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Command Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-19949 QNAP NAS File Station Command Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-7193 QNAP QTS Improper Input Validation Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-19943 QNAP NAS File Station Cross-Site Scripting Exploited High 8.0
• CVE-2018-19953 QNAP NAS File Station Cross-Site Scripting Exploited Medium 6.1

All Qnap Qts vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-ghvr-pf77-p73g.