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Western Digital Arkeia Remote Code Execution

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Disclosed
Jul 10, 2015
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a code execution flaw in Western Digital Arkeia version 11.0.12 and below.
The vulnerability exists in the 'arkeiad' daemon listening on TCP port 617. Because there are
insufficient checks on the authentication of all clients, this can be bypassed.
Using the ARKFS_EXEC_CMD operation it's possible to execute arbitrary commands with root or
SYSTEM privileges.
The daemon is installed on both the Arkeia server as well on all the backup clients. The module
has been successfully tested on Windows, Linux, OSX, FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

Author

xistence [email protected]

Platform

Unix,Windows

Architectures

x86, cmd

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/multi/misc/arkeia_agent_exec
    msf exploit(arkeia_agent_exec) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(arkeia_agent_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(arkeia_agent_exec) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(arkeia_agent_exec) > exploit
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