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Synology rolls out patches for critical security bugs

Issued: 
Thursday, 5 January, 2023
Last Revision: 
Thursday, 5 January, 2023
Vendor: 
Severity Level: 
Summary: 

Synology had published two new critical advisories. One of them describes an internally discovered vulnerability affecting Synology VPN Plus Server, which turns routers into an advanced VPN server. 

 

The security hole, tracked as CVE-2022-43931, is an out-of-bounds write issue in the remote desktop functionality of VPN Plus Server. It can allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands.

 

The second advisory describes multiple vulnerabilities impacting the Synology Router Manager (SRM), the operating system that powers the firm’s routers. The flaws can be exploited for arbitrary command execution, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, and reading arbitrary files.

 

CVE/Vulnerability

Affected  Products

Description 

CVSSv3

Score

Exploitable

CVE-2022-43931

 

VPN Plus Server for SRM 1.3 & 1.2

Out-ofbounds write vulnerability

in Remote Desktop

Functionality  

10

No

 

Recommendation: 

Organization are encouraged to upgrade the affected version to latest version.