CVE-2015-7709
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.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 79.0%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 10.0 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 78.97% probability · 100th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 13 July 2015
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- Affected
- arkeia/western digital arkeia
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 79.0% since 4 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/misc/arkeia_agent_execExploit
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132660/Western-Digital-Arkeia-11.0.13-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlExploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37600/Exploit
- http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/misc/arkeia_agent_execExploit
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132660/Western-Digital-Arkeia-11.0.13-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlExploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37600/Exploit
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