Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-44014

High

Published: 03 October 2025

Published
03 October 2025
Modified
08 October 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0018 39.4th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-44014 is an out-of-bounds write vulnerability (CWE-787) affecting Qsync Central. A remote attacker who gains a user account can exploit the vulnerability to modify or corrupt memory. The issue carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and was published on 2025-10-03.

A remote attacker with low privileges, such as a compromised user account, can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Exploitation enables the attacker to modify or corrupt memory, resulting in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

QNAP has fixed the vulnerability in Qsync Central version 5.0.0.1, released on 2025/07/09, and later versions. Administrators should update affected systems immediately. Additional details are available in QNAP security advisory QSA-25-34 at https://www.qnap.com/en/security-advisory/qsa-25-34.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-787

Affected Products

qnap
qsync central
4.2.0.0 — 5.0.0.1

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services Lateral Movement
Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network.
Why these techniques?

Out-of-bounds write enables remote low-privileged memory corruption/modification in Qsync Central service, directly facilitating exploitation for privilege escalation (T1068) and exploitation of remote services (T1210).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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