CVE-2022-36331
Impersonation attack causing an Authentication Bypass on Western Digital devices
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- WDC PSIRT
Description
Western Digital My Cloud, My Cloud Home, My Cloud Home Duo, and SanDisk ibi devices were vulnerable to an impersonation attack that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain access to user data. This issue affects My Cloud OS 5 devices: before 5.25.132; My Cloud Home and My Cloud Home Duo: before 8.13.1-102; SanDisk ibi: before 8.13.1-102.
Timeline
ID reserved
By WDC PSIRT
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Published
- 19 months later
· 19 months 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
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WDC PSIRTCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical10.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.59% · top 51% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 10.0.
Weakness
Affected products
Western Digital · My Cloud OS 5
- affected < 5.25.132
Western Digital · My Cloud Home and My Cloud Home Duo
- affected < 8.13.1-102
- affected < 8.13.1-102
What to do
Solution: All My Cloud Home, My Cloud Home Duo, and SanDisk ibi devices have been or will be automatically updated to the latest firmware version. Cloud access will not be available until your My Cloud Home/My Cloud Home Duo/SanDisk ibi device has been updated to firmware version 8.13.1-102 or above. Please refer to this KBA https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/50563 . Users of other My Cloud devices should promptly update to the latest firmware by clicking the firmware update notification to receive the latest security fixes. Cloud access will not be available until your My Cloud device has been updated to firmware version 5.25.132 or above. Please refer to this KBA https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/50564 .
References (1)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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