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Summoning Team

Also known assummoning_team

Summoning Team is a security research team that demonstrated multiple critical zero-day vulnerabilities affecting QNAP NAS software during the Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 competition. In the referenced reporting, Summoning Team is listed alongside other participating research teams (DEVCORE, Team DDOS, and CyCraft) as having demonstrated issues impacting QNAP QTS and QuTS hero operating systems and QNAP applications including Hyper Data Protector, Malware Remover, and HBS 3 Hybrid Backup Sync. The demonstrated flaws (including stack-based buffer overflows, use-after-free, path traversal, and command injection in CGI handlers such as quick.cgi) could enable unauthenticated remote code execution, privilege escalation to root, and full device takeover, including access to/alteration of stored and backup data. The content characterizes these activities as white-hat research conducted in the context of coordinated disclosure via Pwn2Own; no nation-state attribution, criminal motivation, or operational intrusion activity is described.

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2 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.

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MITRE ATT&CK
TA0002
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T1203
Exploitation for Client Execution
TA0004
Privilege Escalation
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T1068
Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
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