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🛡️ CVE-2026-24717 — qts

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-22 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
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Description

A path traversal vulnerability has been reported to affect several QNAP operating system versions. If a remote attacker gains an administrator account, they can then exploit the vulnerability to read the contents of unexpected files or system data.

We have already fixed the vulnerability in the following versions:

QTS 5.2.9.3492 build 20260507 and later

QuTS hero h5.2.9.3499 build 20260514 and later

QuTS hero h5.3.4.3500 build 20260520 and later

QuTS hero h6.0.0.3459 build 20260409 and later

How this vulnerability can be exploited

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

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-24717 is classified as CWE-22: Path Traversal. A file path built from user input is not confined to the intended directory, letting an attacker reach files elsewhere on the filesystem.

Affected software

CVE-2026-24717 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • qts (from 5.2.0.2737 up to 5.2.9.3492)
  • quts-hero (from h6.0.0.3324 up to h6.0.0.3459)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 June 2026 and last revised on 23 July 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-22: Path Traversal) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-06-10
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-23
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
qts 5.2.0.2737 5.2.9.3492
quts-hero h6.0.0.3324 h6.0.0.3459

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