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🛡️ CVE-2024-48866 — qts

🟡 CVSS 5.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-177 NVD
5.3
CVSS Score
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Description

An improper handling of URL encoding (Hex Encoding) vulnerability has been reported to affect several QNAP operating system versions. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow remote attackers to run the system into unexpected state.

We have already fixed the vulnerability in the following versions:

QTS 5.1.9.2954 build 20241120 and later

QTS 5.2.2.2950 build 20241114 and later

QuTS hero h5.1.9.2954 build 20241120 and later

QuTS hero h5.2.2.2952 build 20241116 and later

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-48866 is classified as CWE-177: Improper Handling of URL Encoding (Hex Encoding). The product does not properly handle when all or part of an input has been URL encoded.

Affected software

CVE-2024-48866 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • qts
  • quts-hero

Timeline and source

Published on 6 December 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.qnap.com

Other advisories for this package

qts has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-177: Improper Handling of URL Encoding (Hex Encoding)) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-177
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-12-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
qts — —
quts-hero — —

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