VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-8023

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability5.88%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-04-01
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-287: Improper Authentication

Primary references