CVE-2024-5401 Privilege escalation in DiskStation Manager (DSM)

What is CVE-2024-5401?

CVE-2024-5401 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Synology Diskstation Manager, published on 4 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Improper control of dynamically-managed code resources vulnerability in WebAPI component in Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) before 7.1.1-42962-8 and 7.2.1-69057-2 and 7.2.2-72806 and Synology Unified Controller (DSMUC) before 3.1.4-23079 allows remote authenticated users to obtain privileges without consent via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-913

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5401?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Synology Diskstation Manager, Synology Diskstation Manager Unified Controller.

How do I fix CVE-2024-5401?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5401 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2024-5401 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5401 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Synology Diskstation Manager

• CVE-2022-27624 Memory corruption in DiskStation Manager (DSM) Critical 10.0
• CVE-2022-27625 Memory corruption in DiskStation Manager (DSM) Critical 10.0
• CVE-2022-27626 Race condition in DiskStation Manager (DSM) Critical 10.0
• CVE-2013-6955 Path traversal in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2022-22687 Memory corruption in DiskStation Manager (DSM) Critical 9.8

All Synology Diskstation Manager vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-5fr5-6cwj-9hp2.