CVE-2020-2499: QNAP Qes

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A hard-coded password vulnerability has been reported to affect earlier versions of QES. If exploited, this vulnerability could allow attackers to log in with a hard-coded password. QNAP has already fixed the issue in QES 2.1.1 Build 20200515 and later.

Affected products

• QNAP Qes: before 2.1.1 (fixed in 2.1.1); version 2.1.1 only

Published 2020-12-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.