How severe is CVE-2022-24990?

CVE-2022-24990 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). EPSS estimates a 83.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2022-24990: TerraMaster OS Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

TerraMaster OS Remote Command Execution Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2023-02-10

Remediation due

2023-03-03

Ransomware

Known use

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://forum.terra-master.com/en/viewtopic.php?t=3030; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24990

Description

TerraMaster NAS 4.2.29 and earlier allows remote attackers to discover the administrative password by sending "User-Agent: TNAS" to module/api.php?mobile/webNasIPS and then reading the PWD field in the response.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA9.8 CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 14, 2026

All KEV statistics→

CISA added CVE-2022-24990 to the KEV catalog 3 days after its CVE record was published. The median for entries added in 2023 is 12 days.
Its current EPSS score (83.2%) is higher than that of 66% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

5 Links

Other references

Record Details

Published

2023-02-07

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

mitre

Credited to

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