CVE-2022-29835: Westerndigital Wd Discovery

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

WD Discovery software executable files were signed with an unsafe SHA-1 hashing algorithm. An attacker could use this weakness to create forged certificate signatures due to the use of a hashing algorithm that is not collision-free. This could thereby impact the confidentiality of user content. This issue affects: Western Digital WD Discovery WD Discovery Desktop App versions prior to 4.4.396 on Mac; WD Discovery Desktop App versions prior to 4.4.396 on Windows.

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Published 2022-09-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.