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…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 79.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
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 an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- Western Digital Arkeia Remote Code Execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/misc/arkeia_agent_execRank greatdisclosed 10 Jul 2015
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Western Digital Arkeia < 11.0.12 - Remote Code Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 37600remote, multiplepublished 13 Jul 2015Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 37600 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 9 years later
· 9 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 | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 79.0% · top 0.4% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
3
- http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/misc/arkeia_agent_exec (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132660/Western-Digital-Arkeia-11.0.13-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 37600 (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-2015-7610 (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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