CVE-2022-27596 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability affecting QNAP QuTS hero and QTS operating systems, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to inject malicious code. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it poses a severe risk of complete compromise (confidentiality, integrity, availability). While no public exploit code is currently available, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, with reports indicating a large number of internet-exposed QNAP devices remain vulnerable. Organizations should update to QuTS hero h5.0.1.2248 build 20221215 or QTS 5.0.1.2234 build 20221201 and later to mitigate this threat.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 5.0.1, < 5.0.1.2234CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qnap:qts:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= h5.0.1, < h5.0.1.2248CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qnap:quts_hero:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.
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.