CVE-2022-36331
Impersonation attack causing an Authentication Bypass on Western Digital devices
02 Description
Impersonation attack causing an Authentication Bypass on Western Digital devices
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
- AutomatableyesAn attacker can reliably automate reconnaissance through exploitation, so this scales.
- Technical ImpactpartialSuccessful exploitation gives limited control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 0.59% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 48.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2023-06-12 17:57Z3 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2025-01-03 14:48Z1 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2022-07-20
- Assigning CNA
- WDC PSIRT
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Critical (CVSS 10.0)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-290Authentication Bypass by SpoofingBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- c8e847ff8e587a07476db8d7326944126b9e22c68c1fb98ea2fe30ef8f1fe288
05 Affected products
06 References
07 Remediation
All My Cloud Home, My Cloud Home Duo, and SanDisk ibi devices have been or will be automatically updated to the latest firmware version. Cloud access will not be available until your My Cloud Home/My Cloud Home Duo/SanDisk ibi device has been updated to firmware version 8.13.1-102 or above. Please refer to this KBA https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/50563 . Users of other My Cloud devices should promptly update to the latest firmware by clicking the firmware update notification to receive the latest security fixes. Cloud access will not be available until your My Cloud device has been updated to firmware version 5.25.132 or above. Please refer to this KBA https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/50564 .