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Western Digital addressed a critical bug in My Cloud OS 5

Security Affairsby @securityaffairs ()2 min read2 · 2 reads
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Western Digital fixed a critical flaw affecting My Cloud OS 5 devices that allowed attackers to gain remote code execution with root privileges. Western Digital has addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-44142 , that could have allowed attackers to gain remote code execution with root privileges on unpatched My Cloud OS 5 devices.

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