CVE-2022-22997 Command Injection Vulnerability on My Cloud Home

Medium 6.8 Published Updated

Attackers can execute unsigned code on Western Digital My Cloud Home devices via command injection and exposed AWS S3 bucket.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2022-22997?

CVE-2022-22997 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Western Digital My Cloud Home, published on 12 Jul 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Addressed a remote code execution vulnerability by resolving a command injection vulnerability and closing an AWS S3 bucket that potentially allowed an attacker to execute unsigned code on My Cloud Home devices.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-22997?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Westerndigital My Cloud Home Duo Firmware, Westerndigital My Cloud Home Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2022-22997?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-22997 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-2022-22997 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-22997 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-mj6h-crq2-hr82.

Is CVE-2022-22997 in your software?

Upload an SBOM and sbomify checks it against every vulnerability here, every day.

Check your SBOMs for free