CVE-2015-7709

critical
Published 2015-10-05 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
arkeiawestern_digital_arkeia{"endIncluding":"11.0.12"}

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.