CVE-2015-7709

Exp

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.

Published: 2015-10-05 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2015-7709 is rated High Exploit Risk (89.4/100): CVSS Critical severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 88.39%, 99th percentile). 4 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2015-7709

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
37600 exploit_db edb 2015-07-13 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-7709

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-11-26 88.85% 88.39% -0.46%
2 2025-08-23 87.83% 88.85% +1.02%
3 2025-06-21 — 87.83% —

Full EPSS history (21 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-7709

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
10.0 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
 10.0 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-7709

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-7709

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
arkeia western_digital_arkeia <= 11.0.12 cpe:2.3:a:arkeia:western_digital_arkeia:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-7709

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