CVE-2022-29842 is a critical command injection vulnerability impacting Western Digital My Cloud OS 5 devices running versions prior to 5.26.119. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on affected devices by manipulating special elements in a CGI file. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness and potential for future exploitation.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 5.02.104, < 5.26.119CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:westerndigital:my_cloud_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 0, < 5.26.119CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:westerndigital:my_cloud_os_5:*:*:*:*:*:iphone_os:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.