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CVE-2018-17153

CRITICAL

It was discovered that the Western Digital My Cloud device before 2.30.196 is affected by an authentication bypass vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to authenticate as an admin user without needing to provide a password, thereby gaining full control of the device. (Whenever an admin logs into My Cloud, a server-side session is created that is bound to the user's IP address. After the session is created, it is possible to call authenticated CGI modules by sending the cookie username=admin in the HTTP request. The invoked CGI will check if a valid session is present and bound to the user's IP address.) It was found that it is possible for an unauthenticated attacker to create a valid session without a login. The network_mgr.cgi CGI module contains a command called "cgi_get_ipv6" that starts an admin session -- tied to the IP address of the user making the request -- if the additional parameter "flag" with the value "1" is provided. Subsequent invocation of commands that would normally require admin privileges now succeed if an attacker sets the username=admin cookie.

Published: Sep 18, 2018 Modified: Jun 17, 2026
CWE-287

CVSS Metrics

CVSSv3
Attack Vector: NETWORK Attack Complexity: LOW Privileges Required: NONE User Interaction: NONE Scope: UNCHANGED Confidentiality Impact: HIGH Integrity Impact: HIGH Availability Impact: HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products (12)

Vendor Product Version
western_digital my_cloud_wdbctl0020hwt_firmware * < 2.30.196
western_digital my_cloud_pr4100 * < 2.30.196
western_digital my_cloud_pr2100_firmware * < 2.30.196
western_digital my_cloud_mirror_gen_2_firmware * < 2.30.196
western_digital my_cloud_mirror_firmware * < 2.30.196
western_digital my_cloud_ex4100 * < 2.30.196
western_digital my_cloud_ex4_firmware * < 2.30.196
western_digital my_cloud_ex2100_firmware * < 2.30.196
western_digital my_cloud_ex2_ultra_firmware * < 2.30.196
western_digital my_cloud_ex2_firmware * < 2.30.196
western_digital my_cloud_dl4100_firmware * < 2.30.196
western_digital my_cloud_dl2100 * < 2.30.196

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-22xm-47fv-r79q

It was discovered that the Western Digital My Cloud device before 2.30.196 is affected by an...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 9.8 / 10
EPSS Score 86.59%

Top 0% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 75.2 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub