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Critical RCE Vulnerability Affects Zyxel NAS Devices — Firmware Patch Released
2022-09-07 05:28

Networking equipment maker Zyxel has released patches for a critical security flaw impacting its network-attached storage devices.

Tracked as CVE-2022-34747, the issue relates to a "Format string vulnerability" affecting NAS326, NAS540, and NAS542 models.

Zyxel credited researcher Shaposhnikov Ilya for reporting the flaw.

"A format string vulnerability was found in a specific binary of Zyxel NAS products that could allow an attacker to achieve unauthorized remote code execution via a crafted UDP packet," the company said in an advisory released on September 6.

The disclosure comes as Zyxel previously addressed local privilege escalation and authenticated directory traversal vulnerabilities affecting its firewall products in July.

In June 2022, it also remediated a security vulnerability that left GS1200 series switches susceptible to password-guessing attacks via a timing side-channel attack.


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Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2022-09-06 CVE-2022-34747 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String vulnerability in Zyxel Nas326 Firmware 5.21/5.21(Aazf.7)C0
A format string vulnerability in Zyxel NAS326 firmware versions prior to V5.21(AAZF.12)C0 could allow an attacker to achieve unauthorized remote code execution via a crafted UDP packet.
network
low complexity
zyxel CWE-134
critical
9.8

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VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Zyxel 382 0 82 95 51 228