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CVE-2018-19945

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in QTS

Description

A vulnerability has been reported to affect earlier QNAP devices running QTS 4.3.4 to 4.3.6. Caused by improper limitations of a pathname to a restricted directory, this vulnerability allows for renaming arbitrary files on the target system, if exploited. QNAP have already fixed this vulnerability in the following versions: QTS 4.3.6.0895 build 20190328 (and later) QTS 4.3.4.0899 build 20190322 (and later) This issue does not affect QTS 4.4.x or QTS 4.5.x.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By qnap

  2. · 2 years later

    Published

  3. · 4 years later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2018-19945, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.1Critical9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
1.1% · top 33% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.

Affected products

What to do

Solution: QNAP have already fixed this vulnerability in the following versions: QTS 4.3.6.0895 build 20190328 (and later) QTS 4.3.4.0899 build 20190322 (and later) This issue does not affect QTS 4.4.x or QTS 4.5.x.

References

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Sources

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