CVE-2014-8687

critical

Published 2017-06-08 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

Seagate Business NAS devices with firmware before 2015.00322 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges by leveraging use of a static encryption key to create session tokens.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-36264 remote php verified

Metasploit · 2015-03-04

Seagate Business NAS - Remote Command Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-36202 webapps hardware verified

OJ Reeves · 2015-03-01

Seagate Business NAS 2014.00319 - Remote Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_linux/http/seagate_nas_php_exec_noauth rank 300

Seagate Business NAS Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

References

CWEs

CWE-327

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.