CVE-2014-2846

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-04-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in opt/arkeia/wui/htdocs/index.php in the WD Arkeia virtual appliance (AVA) with firmware before 10.2.9 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and execute arbitrary PHP code via a ..././ (dot dot dot slash dot slash) in the lang Cookie parameter, as demonstrated by a request to login/doLogin.

Affected products

Westerndigital Arkeia Virtual Appliance Firmware: through 10.2.7

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/257
http://wiki.arkeia.com/index.php/Path_Traversal_Remote_Code_Execution
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531910/100/0/threaded
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/257
http://wiki.arkeia.com/index.php/Path_Traversal_Remote_Code_Execution
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531910/100/0/threaded

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