CVE-2017-15889

high

Published 2017-12-04 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

Description

Command injection vulnerability in smart.cgi in Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) before 5.2-5967-5 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via disk field.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-48514 remote hardware verified

Metasploit · 2020-05-25

Synology DiskStation Manager - smart.cgi Remote Command Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_linux/http/synology_dsm_smart_exec_auth rank 600

Synology DiskStation Manager smart.cgi Remote Command Execution

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

References

CWEs

CWE-77

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.