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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-19945

A vulnerability has been reported to affect earlier QNAP devices running QTS 4.3.4 to 4.3.6.

CRITICAL 9.1EPSS 1.12%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.12%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

A vulnerability has been reported to affect earlier QNAP devices running QTS 4.3.4 to 4.3.6. Caused by improper limitations of a pathname to a restricted directory, this vulnerability allows for renaming arbitrary files on the target system, if exploited. QNAP have already fixed this vulnerability in the following versions: QTS 4.3.6.0895 build 20190328 (and later) QTS 4.3.4.0899 build 20190322 (and later) This issue does not affect QTS 4.4.x or QTS 4.5.x.

CVSS 3.1
9.1 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.12% probability · 66th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-20, CWE-22, CWE-73, CWE-284
Affected
qnap/qts
Source
security@qnapsecurity.com.tw
EPSS trend
0%3%5%27 October 2026: 1.12%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 1.1% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.