CVE-2017-8023
moderate-risk
Published 2019-04-01
EMC NetWorker may potentially be vulnerable to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in the Networker Client execution service (nsrexecd) when oldauth authentication method is used. An unauthenticated remote attacker could send arbitrary commands via RPC service to be executed on the host system with the privileges of the nsrexecd service, which runs with administrative privileges.
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10.6% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 89% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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9
CVSS 9.8/10
Critical
NETWORK
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (1)
Emc Networker
Affected Vendors
References (4)
48
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
32/34 · Critical
Exploitability
11/34 · Low
Exposure
5/34 · Minimal