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CVE-2025-58466 — A use of uninitialized variable vulnerability has been reported to affect several QNAP operating system versions

Medium CVSS 4.9

A use of uninitialized variable vulnerability has been reported to affect several QNAP operating system versions. If a remote attacker gains an administrator account, they can then exploit the vulnerability to denial of service conditions, or modify control flow in unexpected ways. We have already fixed the vulnerability in the following versions: QTS 5.2.8.3332 build 20251128 and later QuTS hero h5.2.8.3321 build 20251117 and later

Severity
Medium
CVSS
4.9 (3.1)
Published
2026-02-11
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-457

Affected products

  • qnap / qts / 5.2.0.2737
  • qnap / qts / 5.2.0.2744
  • qnap / qts / 5.2.0.2782
  • qnap / qts / 5.2.0.2802
  • qnap / qts / 5.2.0.2823
  • qnap / qts / 5.2.0.2851

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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