Western Digital WD Discovery prior 4.0.251.0 User Permission DYLD injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Western Digital WD Discovery. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component User Permission. Such manipulation of the argument DYLD as part of Environment Variable leads to injection. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2020-15816. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Western Digital WD Discovery and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component User Permission. The manipulation of the argument DYLD as part of a Environment Variable leads to a injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was shared 07/17/2020. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-15816 since 07/17/2020. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The successful exploitation requires a simple authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1055 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 4.0.251.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Injection
CWE: CWE-74 / CWE-707 / CWE-20
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: WD Discovery 4.0.251.0

Timelineinfo

07/17/2020 🔍
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07/19/2020 +2 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2020-15816 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2020-15816
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-158774

Entryinfo

Created: 07/19/2020 11:40
Updated: 07/19/2020 11:45
Changes: 07/19/2020 11:40 (38), 07/19/2020 11:45 (17)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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