# CVE-2024-29231: Denial of service in Surveillance Station

> Remote authenticated users can cause limited denial-of-service and obtain non-sensitive information in Synology Surveillance Station via improper array index validation.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 28 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 13 Aug 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fhpq-7g7c-xh6j

## What is CVE-2024-29231?

CVE-2024-29231 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Synology Surveillance Station, published on 28 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Improper validation of array index vulnerability in UserPrivilege.Enum webapi component in Synology Surveillance Station before 9.2.0-9289 and 9.2.0-11289 allows remote authenticated users to obtain non-sensitive information and conduct limited denial-of-service attacks via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-129 (Improper Validation of Array Index)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-29231?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Synology Surveillance Station.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-29231?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-29231 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-29231 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-29231 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Synology Surveillance Station

- [CVE-2024-29241](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-29241/): Missing authorization in Surveillance Station (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2024-29228](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-29228/): Missing authorization in Surveillance Station (high 7.7)
- [CVE-2024-29229](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-29229/): Missing authorization in Surveillance Station (high 7.7)
- [CVE-2017-16770](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-16770/): Information disclosure in Surveillance Station (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-29227](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-29227/): SQL injection in Surveillance Station (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-29231 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-29231 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Synology Surveillance Station, published on 28 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-29231 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Synology Surveillance Station. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-29231/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-29231/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29231
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29231
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-29231

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.