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critical 9.8

CVE-2020-28970 json

An issue was discovered on Western Digital My Cloud OS 5 devices before 5.06.115.

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-21355

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.9%
EPSS 3.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered on Western Digital My Cloud OS 5 devices before 5.06.115. A NAS Admin authentication bypass vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated user to execute privileged commands on the device via a cookie. (In addition, an upload endpoint could then be used by an authenticated administrator to upload executable PHP scripts.)

Patch / fix

  • westerndigital my_cloud_os_5 5.06.115

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Exploit prediction

3.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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