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Improper Access Control

CVE-2017-16766

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

An improper access control vulnerability in synodsmnotify in Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) before 6.1.4-15217 and before 6.0.3-8754-6 allows local users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the -fn option.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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  • LOW
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CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Listed 5th in the 'OWASP Top Ten', improper (or broken) access control attacks are a fundamental type of vulnerability. This includes a broad range of design flaws that enable users to act outside of their intended permissions. They can use these privileges to gain access to restricted files and functionality such as accessing restricted information, falsifying records, destroying data, or executing commands.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published