A vulnerability was found in QNAP QTS and QuTS hero. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability has been reported to affect several QNAP operating system versions. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow users to launch a denial-of-service (DoS) attack via a network. We have already fixed the vulnerability in the following versions: QTS 5.1.6.2722 build 20240402 and later QuTS hero h5.1.6.2734 build 20240414 and later

The weakness was presented by Chumen77 as qsa-24-20. The advisory is available at qnap.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-51368 since 12/18/2023. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 5.1.6.2722 Build 20240402 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Network Attached Storage Software

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• QNAP

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• QTS
• QuTS hero

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• 4.5.4.2790 Build 20240605
• 5.1.3.2578 Build 20231110
• 5.1.4.2596 Build 20231128

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• commercial

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