CVE-2022-22989
Published: 13 January 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-22989 is a critical-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) vulnerability in Westerndigital My Cloud Os. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 20.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-28100
Vulnerability details
My Cloud OS 5 was vulnerable to a pre-authenticated stack overflow vulnerability on the FTP service that could be exploited by unauthenticated attackers on the network. Addressed the vulnerability by adding defenses against stack overflow issues.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.