Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-26567

High

Published: 26 February 2021

Published
26 February 2021
Modified
14 January 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0113 78.7th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-26567 is a high-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) vulnerability in Synology Diskstation Manager. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 21.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in frontend/main.c in faad2 before 2.2.7.1 allow local attackers to execute arbitrary code via filename and pathname options.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

synology
diskstation manager
≤ 6.2.3-25426-3
synology
vs960hd firmware
all versions
synology
skynas firmware
all versions
synology
diskstation manager unified controller
3.0
faad2 project
faad2
≤ 2.2.7.1

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References