QNAP fixed two critical vulnerabilities in QTS OS and apps

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2023

Taiwanese vendor QNAP warns of two critical command injection flaws in the QTS operating system and applications on its NAS devices.

Taiwanese vendor QNAP Systems addressed two critical command injection vulnerabilities, tracked as and , that impact the QTS operating system and applications on its network-attached storage (NAS) devices.

The vulnerability CVE-2023-23368 (CVSS score 9.8) is an OS command injection issue that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute commands via a network. The vulnerability was reported by CataLpa of Hatlab, Dbappsecurity Co. Ltd.

“An OS command injection vulnerability has been reported to affect several QNAP operating system versions. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow remote attackers to execute commands via a network.” the advisory.

Below are the impacted product versions and the available fixed versions:

Affected ProductFixed Version
QTS 5.0.xQTS 5.0.1.2376 build 20230421 and later
QTS 4.5.xQTS 4.5.4.2374 build 20230416 and later
QuTS hero h5.0.xQuTS hero h5.0.1.2376 build 20230421 and later
QuTS hero h4.5.xQuTS hero h4.5.4.2374 build 20230417 and later
QuTScloud c5.0.xQuTScloud c5.0.1.2374 and later

The vulnerability CVE-2023-23369 (CVSS score 9.0) could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute commands via a network.

“An OS command injection vulnerability has been reported to affect several QNAP operating system and application versions. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow remote attackers to execute commands via a network.” the advisory.

The flaw was reported by Eqqie, below are the impacted product versions and the available fixed versions:

Affected ProductFixed Version
QTS 5.1.xQTS 5.1.0.2399 build 20230515 and later
QTS 4.3.6QTS 4.3.6.2441 build 20230621 and later
QTS 4.3.4QTS 4.3.4.2451 build 20230621 and later
QTS 4.3.3QTS 4.3.3.2420 build 20230621 and later
QTS 4.2.xQTS 4.2.6 build 20230621 and later
Multimedia Console 2.1.xMultimedia Console 2.1.2 (2023/05/04) and later
Multimedia Console 1.4.xMultimedia Console 1.4.8 (2023/05/05) and later
Media Streaming add-on 500.1.xMedia Streaming add-on 500.1.1.2 (2023/06/12) and later
Media Streaming add-on 500.0.xMedia Streaming add-on 500.0.0.11 (2023/06/16) and later

Network administrators are urged to address both vulnerabilities to prevent threat actors from exploiting them to take over devices running the vulnerable software.

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