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CVE-2020-15816: westerndigital wd_discovery Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

CVSS: 8.8v3.1HighModified
Published 17-07-2020Last modified 04-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-15816 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere vulnerability in westerndigital wd_discovery. EPSS estimates a 4.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
36/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
4.09%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 17-07-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In Western Digital WD Discovery before 4.0.251.0, a malicious application running with standard user permissions could potentially execute code in the application's process through library injection by using DYLD environment variables.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 1 source · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

4.09%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

91%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 4.09% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
4.09%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Westerndigital1 product

1 vendor · 1 product

References

1 links