Skip to content
Noroxi
CVE-2016-10331· NVD / CVE Program· CNA synology

Directory traversal vulnerability in download.php in Synology Photo Station before 6.5.3-3226 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary file

Directory traversal vulnerability in download.php in Synology Photo Station before 6.5.3-3226 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the id parameter.

HighCVSS 7.5 · v3.0—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
May 12, 2017
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
2.2% · 82th percentile
Follow this CVE

Sign in to follow · You’ll be notified if a followed record enters KEV, gets an exploit or is updated.

Report tools

JSON

Action score

31

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
1 / 30 · 2.2%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
synologyphoto station

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • synology photo stationup to 6.5.2-3225 inclusive

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (synology). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Synology Synology Photo Station

    • All versions prior to version 6.5.3-3226affected

Same product

synology: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2016-10329Command injection vulnerability in login.php in Synology Photo Station before 6.5.3-3226 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code v
    51Plan
  • CVE-2017-11155An information exposure vulnerability in index.php in Synology Photo Station before 6.7.3-3432 and 6.3-2967 allows remote attackers to obtai
    44Plan
  • CVE-2017-11151A vulnerability in synotheme_upload.php in Synology Photo Station before 6.7.3-3432 and 6.3-2967 allows remote attackers to upload arbitrary
    44Plan
  • CVE-2017-11153Deserialization vulnerability in synophoto_csPhotoMisc.php in Synology Photo Station before 6.7.3-3432 and 6.3-2967 allows remote attackers
    43Plan
  • CVE-2021-29089Improper neutralization of special elements used in an SQL command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in thumbnail component in Synology Photo
    40Plan
  • CVE-2019-11821SQL injection vulnerability in synophoto_csPhotoDB.php in Synology Photo Station before 6.8.11-3489 and before 6.3-2977 allows remote attack
    40Plan

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

—

Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
none
Availability
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd-primary

Root cause

A user-supplied file name is joined with the allowed directory, but the result is never checked to confirm it is still inside that directory.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-22 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

ts
const file = path.join(ROOT, req.query.name);res.sendFile(file);

Fixed

ts
const file = path.resolve(ROOT, req.query.name);if (!file.startsWith(ROOT + path.sep)) {  return res.sendStatus(400);}res.sendFile(file);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

ATT&CK techniques

—

Noroxi analysis

No Noroxi analysis for this record yet

We don't hand-write analysis for all 385,000+ vulnerabilities; that wouldn't be honest. For notable, high-impact vulnerabilities our team writes the mechanism, detection and remediation steps.

We use this product, ask for help

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

All records