High severity · published Jul 17, 2020
CVE-2020-15816
In Western Digital WD Discovery before 4.0.251.0, a malicious application running with standard user permissions could potentially execute code in the application's process…
8.8
CVSS
4.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Western Digital WD Discovery before 4.0.251.0, a malicious application running with standard user permissions could potentially execute code in the application's process through library injection by using DYLD environment variables.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.1% · higher than 91% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
WD
WD Discovery · Westerndigital
before 4.0.251.0; before 4.0.251.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15816
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15816
Vendor Advisory
https://www.westerndigital.com/support/productsecurity/wdc-20005-wd-discovery-remote-command-execution-vulnerability
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