Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-22816

MediumRCE

Published: 30 June 2023

Published
30 June 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0050 66.5th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-22816 is a medium-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Westerndigital My Cloud Os. Its CVSS base score is 6.0 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 33.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A post-authentication remote command injection vulnerability in a CGI file in Western Digital My Cloud OS 5 devices that could allow an attacker to build files with redirects and execute larger payloads. This issue affects My Cloud OS 5 devices:…

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before 5.26.300.

CWE(s)
CWE-78CWE-77

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

westerndigital
my cloud os
≤ 5.26.300

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.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-78

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

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