CVE-2020-15816

HIGH

Westerndigital WD Discovery < 4.0.251.0 - Exposure to Wrong Actor

Title source: rule

Description

In Western Digital WD Discovery before 4.0.251.0, a malicious application running with standard user permissions could potentially execute code in the application's process through library injection by using DYLD environment variables.

References (1)

[Vendor Advisory] https://www.westerndigital.com/support/productsecurity/wdc-20005-wd-discovery-remote-command-execution-vulnerability

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0065

EPSS Percentile 70.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-668

Status published

Affected Products (2)

westerndigital/wd_discovery < 4.0.251.0

Timeline

Published Jul 17, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026