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CVE-2015-7709 in the critical feed json

The arkeiad daemon in the Arkeia Backup Agent in Western Digital Arkeia 11.0.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass authenticatio…

published 2015-10-05 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-7610

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
79.0%
EPSS 79.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.5%
public exploits
2
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

The arkeiad daemon in the Arkeia Backup Agent in Western Digital Arkeia 11.0.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands via a series of crafted requests involving the ARKFS_EXEC_CMD operation.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/multi/misc/arkeia_agent_exec)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

78.97% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/multi/misc/arkeia_agent_exec Western Digital Arkeia Remote Code Execution metasploit exploit, great rank, 2015-07-10
  • EDB-37600 Western Digital Arkeia < 11.0.12 - Remote Code Execution (Metasploit) remote, 2015-07-13
  • rapid7.com http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/misc/arkeia_agent_exec referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • packetstormsecurity.com https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132660/Western-Digital-Arkeia-11.0.13-Remote-Code-Execution.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

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