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title: "CVE-2026-34014: Download Station - Broken Access Control"
description: "Download Station contains an incorrect permission assignment vulnerability affecting critical resources, letting local attackers with administrator accounts compromise system security, exploit requires administrator privileges."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-34014/
---

# CVE-2026-34014 Download Station - Broken Access Control

Download Station contains an incorrect permission assignment vulnerability affecting critical resources, letting local attackers with administrator accounts compromise system security, exploit requires administrator privileges.

CVSS base score 8.4 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Required

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-34014)

## Details

Type

Broken Access Control

Impact

Privilege Escalation

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Published

15 October 2026

Updated

15 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-732](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/732.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to Download Station 5.10.1.312, 5.11.2.321 or later.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-34014](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-34014)
- [https://www.qnap.com/en/app\_releasenotes/list.php?app\_choose=DownloadStation](https://www.qnap.com/en/app_releasenotes/list.php?app_choose=DownloadStation)

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## What this record can't tell you

- Whether you run the affected software, and where
- Whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it
- The misconfigurations that never get a CVE number
- What it would cost the business, ranked into what to fix first

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