Exploitation Summary
CVE-2020-2509 is actively exploited and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added April 11, 2022, with confirmed use in ransomware campaigns. EIP tracks 1 public exploit from researchers including jbaines-r7.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a QNAP QTS vulnerability by sending HTTP GET requests to `/cgi-bin/qnapmsg.cgi?lang=xxx`, causing the device to download an XML file from `update.qnap.com` via insecure HTTP. An attacker can redirect this request to serve a malicious XML file, leading to a reverse shell via command injection in the `system` call.
Description
A command injection vulnerability has been reported to affect QTS and QuTS hero. If exploited, this vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands in a compromised application. We have already fixed this vulnerability in the following versions: QTS 4.5.2.1566 Build 20210202 and later QTS 4.5.1.1495 Build 20201123 and later QTS 4.3.6.1620 Build 20210322 and later QTS 4.3.4.1632 Build 20210324 and later QTS 4.3.3.1624 Build 20210416 and later QTS 4.2.6 Build 20210327 and later QuTS hero h4.5.1.1491 build 20201119 and later
Exploits (1)
This exploit targets a QNAP QTS vulnerability by sending HTTP GET requests to `/cgi-bin/qnapmsg.cgi?lang=xxx`, causing the device to download an XML file from `update.qnap.com` via insecure HTTP. An attacker can redirect this request to serve a malicious XML file, leading to a reverse shell via command injection in the `system` call.
References (2)
Scores
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H