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CVE-2017-9552

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-522

Description

A design flaw in authentication in Synology Photo Station 6.0-2528 through 6.7.1-3419 allows local users to obtain credentials via cmdline. Synology Photo Station employs the synophoto_dsm_user program to authenticate username and password by "synophoto_dsm_user --auth USERNAME PASSWORD", and local users are able to obtain credentials by sniffing "/proc/*/cmdline".

Affected products

• Synology Photo Station: 6.0-2528, 6.0-2636, 6.0-2638, 6.0-2639, 6.0-2640, 6.3-2944 (+18)

References

• http://blog.crozat.net/2017/06/synology-photostation-password-vulnerabilty.html
• https://www.synology.com/en-global/support/security/Photo_Station_CVE_2017_9552
• http://blog.crozat.net/2017/06/synology-photostation-password-vulnerabilty.html
• https://www.synology.com/en-global/support/security/Photo_Station_CVE_2017_9552

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