PT-2020-14645 · Western Digital · Wd Discovery

Yoko Kho · Published 2020-07-17 · Updated 2021-07-21 · CVE-2020-15816

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Western Digital WD Discovery versions prior to 4.0.251.0

Description A malicious application running with standard user permissions could potentially execute code in the WD Discovery application's process through library injection by using DYLD environment variables.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.0.251.0, update to version 4.0.251.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-668

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-15816

Affected Products

Wd Discovery

References · 3

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-15816 · Vendor Advisory
• https://westerndigital.com/support/productsecurity/wdc-20005-wd-discovery-remote-command-execution-vulnerability · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15816 · Security Note