# CVE-2025-22482: Qsync Central

> Remote attackers with user access can exploit a format string vulnerability in Qsync Central to read secrets or modify memory.

- **Severity:** Low 2.3 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA: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:** 6 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 6 Jun 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8768-9r9g-5fj5

## What is CVE-2025-22482?

CVE-2025-22482 is a low-severity vulnerability in Qnap Qsync Central, published on 6 Jun 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A use of externally-controlled format string vulnerability has been reported to affect Qsync Central. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow remote attackers who have gained user access to obtain secret data or modify memory.

We have already fixed the vulnerability in the following version:
Qsync Central 4.5.0.6 ( 2025/03/20 ) and later

Weakness: CWE-134 (Use of Externally-Controlled Format String)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22482?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Qnap Qsync Central.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-22482?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-22482 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-22482 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22482 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Qnap Qsync Central

- [CVE-2025-29892](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-29892/): Qsync Central (high 8.7)
- [CVE-2025-53595](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-53595/): Qsync Central (high 8.6)
- [CVE-2025-54153](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54153/): Qsync Central (high 8.6)
- [CVE-2025-30277](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-30277/): Qsync Central (high 8.3)
- [CVE-2025-30278](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-30278/): Qsync Central (high 8.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-22482 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-22482 is a low-severity vulnerability in Qnap Qsync Central, published on 6 Jun 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22482 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Qnap Qsync Central. 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-2025-22482/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22482/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22482
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22482
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-22482

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22482/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.