Fedora
CVE-2022-22995
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V5 - File Handling Symlink resolution safety
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| Impact | CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the critical-severity affected system. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
The combination of primitives offered by SMB and AFP in their default configuration allows the arbitrary writing of files. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-59. The combination of primitives offered by SMB and AFP in their default configuration allows the arbitrary writing of files. By exploiting these combination of primitives, an attacker can execute arbitrary code. Affected products include: Westerndigital My Cloud Pr2100 Firmware, Westerndigital My Cloud Pr4100 Firmware, Westerndigital My Cloud Ex4100 Firmware, Westerndigital My Cloud Ex2 Ultra Firmware, Westerndigital My Cloud Mirror Gen 2 Firmware.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
The combination of primitives offered by SMB and AFP in their default configuration allows the arbitrary writing of files. By exploiting these combination of primitives, an attacker can execute arbitrary code.
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Attack Technique
Remote Code Execution represents the critical moment when an attacker successfully runs arbitrary code on a target system without physical access.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
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A Type Confusion vulnerability was found in the Spotlight RPC functions in afpd in Netatalk 3.1.x before 3.1.17. Rated c
Stack-based buffer overflow in Netatalk versions 2.0.4 through 4.4.2 allows authenticated remote attackers to corrupt me
SQL injection in Netatalk 3.1.0 through 4.4.2 allows authenticated remote attackers to compromise the MySQL-backed CNID
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Arbitrary file read in Netatalk 3.0.2 through 4.4.2 allows authenticated remote attackers to create attacker-controlled
Path traversal via extended attribute (ea) handling in Netatalk 2.1.0 through 4.4.2 allows authenticated remote attacker
Shell injection in Netatalk 3.1.4 through 4.4.2 allows authenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands t
Out-of-bounds write in Netatalk versions 2.0.4 through 4.4.2 stems from a missing o_len bounds check in the pull_charset
Out-of-bounds write in Netatalk versions 2.0.4 through 4.4.2 affects the convert_charset() routine during null terminati
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