QNAP License Center up to 1.9.55 path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in QNAP License Center up to 1.9.55. It has been declared as critical. This impacts an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-62851. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in QNAP License Center up to 1.9.55. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

A path traversal vulnerability has been reported to affect License Center. If a local attacker gains an administrator account, they can then exploit the vulnerability to read the contents of unexpected files or system data. We have already fixed the vulnerability in the following version: License Center 1.9.56 and later

The weakness was disclosed by coral as qsa-26-28. The advisory is available at qnap.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-62851 since 10/24/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 1.9.56 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• QNAP

Name

• License Center

Version

• 1.9.0
• 1.9.1
• 1.9.2
• 1.9.3
• 1.9.4
• 1.9.5
• 1.9.6
• 1.9.7
• 1.9.8
• 1.9.9
• 1.9.10
• 1.9.11
• 1.9.12
• 1.9.13
• 1.9.14
• 1.9.15
• 1.9.16
• 1.9.17
• 1.9.18
• 1.9.19
• 1.9.20
• 1.9.21
• 1.9.22
• 1.9.23
• 1.9.24
• 1.9.25
• 1.9.26
• 1.9.27
• 1.9.28
• 1.9.29
• 1.9.30
• 1.9.31
• 1.9.32
• 1.9.33
• 1.9.34
• 1.9.35
• 1.9.36
• 1.9.37
• 1.9.38
• 1.9.39
• 1.9.40
• 1.9.41
• 1.9.42
• 1.9.43
• 1.9.44
• 1.9.45
• 1.9.46
• 1.9.47
• 1.9.48
• 1.9.49
• 1.9.50
• 1.9.51
• 1.9.52
• 1.9.53
• 1.9.54
• 1.9.55

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.qnap.com/

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