CVE-2014-8687
Seagate Business NAS devices with firmware before 2015.00322 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges by…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 43.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Seagate Business NAS devices with firmware before 2015.00322 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges by leveraging use of a static encryption key to create session tokens.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits5
Metasploit modules1 module
- Seagate Business NAS Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/http/seagate_nas_php_exec_noauthRank normaldisclosed 1 Mar 2015
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Seagate Business NAS - Remote Command Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36264remote, phppublished 4 Mar 2015Verified
- Seagate Business NAS 2014.00319 - Remote Code Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36202webapps, hardwarepublished 1 Mar 2015Verified
References tagged exploit2 references
- 36202 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 36264 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 43.8% · top 1.2% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References6
- https://beyondbinary.io/articles/seagate-nas-rce/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 72831 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130609/Seagate-Business-NAS-Unauthenticated-Remote-Command-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130585/Seagate-Business-NAS-2014.00319-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 36202 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 36264 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-8519 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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