CVE-2021-36226 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Western Digital My Cloud devices before OS5 do not use cryptographically signed Firmware upgrade files.

Published: 2023-02-06

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:o:westerndigital:my_cloud_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:h:westerndigital:my_cloud_pr4100:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-22846	Western Digital My Cloud devices before OS5 do not use cryptographically signed Firmware upgrade files.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00229.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/pedrib/PoC/blob/master/advisories/Pwn2Own/Tokyo_2020/weekend_destroyer/weekend_destroyer.md
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/another-0-day-looms-for-many-western-digital-users/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsg9YgvGBec

History

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Westerndigital My Cloud Os My Cloud Pr4100

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-02-06T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-03-26T18:39:10.299Z

Reserved: 2021-07-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-36226

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T00:54:50.911Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-06T14:15:08.970

Modified: 2025-03-26T19:15:15.180

Link: CVE-2021-36226

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-347

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