Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-34980

Medium

Published: 08 March 2024

Published
08 March 2024
Modified
10 December 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0005 15.5th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-34980 is a medium-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Qnap Qts. Its CVSS base score is 5.9 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 15.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An OS command injection vulnerability has been reported to affect several QNAP operating system versions. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow authenticated administrators to execute commands via a network. We have already fixed the vulnerability in the following versions: QTS…

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4.5.4.2627 build 20231225 and later QuTS hero h4.5.4.2626 build 20231225 and later

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

qnap
qts
4.5.4.2627 · 4.5.1 — 4.5.4.2627
qnap
quts hero
h4.5.4.2626 · h4.5.0 — h4.5.4.2626

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-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.

addresses: CWE-78

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

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