CVE-2022-36329

Service interruption through improper OTA privilege management

Published May 10, 2023 · Updated Jan 24, 2025

Improper privilege management in Western Digital personal cloud appliances and SanDisk ibi before 9.4.0-191 allows local users to interrupt service. Western Digital identifies the OTA mechanism as the affected locus but has not disclosed the privileged operation or input-handling error. Exploitation requires low privileges, user interaction, and high complexity; the vendor has not stated whether interruption appears as a hang, crash, reboot, or shutdown.

CVSS severity4.4
Medium
EPSS probability0.30%
Next 30 days · Sep 16, 2026
Known exploitationUnconfirmed
Based on sourced intelligence
Hinoki checkNot available
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Summary

What happened

Improper privilege management in Western Digital personal cloud appliances and SanDisk ibi before 9.4.0-191 allows local users to interrupt service. Western Digital identifies the OTA mechanism as the affected locus but has not disclosed the privileged operation or input-handling error. Exploitation requires low privileges, user interaction, and high complexity; the vendor has not stated whether interruption appears as a hang, crash, reboot, or shutdown.

The record

CVE
CVE-2022-36329
Published
May 10, 2023
Updated
Jan 24, 2025
Vendor
Western Digital Corporation
Product
My Cloud Home & Duo
Classifications
CWE-400, T1499
Attack vector
local
Privileges
authenticated

Timeline

How it unfolded

  1. May 10, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
  2. Jan 24, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.

Exploitability

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  1. Affected versionversion=0 <9.4.0-191

What conditions does exploitation require?

Attack vectorlocal
Required privilegesauthenticated

What is affected?

Western Digital Corporation · My Cloud Home & Duoversion=0 <9.4.0-191
SanDisk · ibi Smart Photo Managerversion=0 <9.4.0-191

Published CVSS scores

4.4Western DigitalCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.5NIST NVDCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Sep 10, 2026Sep 16, 2026
Latest reporting daySep 16, 2026
Latest daily unique IPsUnavailable
Prior 30-day averageUnavailable
SourceShadowserver honeypots (KEV)
Vectorlocal
Privilegesauthenticated
Known exploitationUnconfirmed
Public exploitUnconfirmed

Weakness, pattern, technique

CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
T1499Endpoint Denial of Service

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