CVE-2014-2846 — 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

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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

Published Apr 28, 2014

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 8.83%

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

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

8.83% 0.08828

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.08828

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	8.83% (0.08828)	95.04th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	8.76% (0.08757)	94.47th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
May 7, 2025	5.42% (0.05425)	89.59th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	7.07% (0.07068)	90.84th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 17, 2024	4.60% (0.04600)	92.45th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Nov 13, 2024	8.56% (0.08564)	94.69th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 10, 2024	10.57% (0.10569)	94.87th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	11.46% (0.11461)	94.30th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	7.03% (0.07032)	92.26th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 10, 2022	7.03% (0.07032)	91.98th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	7.58% (0.07584)	92.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	7.58% (0.07584)	81.17th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-22

Path Traversal

References (3)

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

Link	Providers	Tags
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/257		mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit
http://wiki.arkeia.com/index.php/Path_Traversal_Remote_Code_Execution		x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531910/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Apr 28, 2014

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Apr 10, 2014

Link CVE-2014-2846

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2014-2846

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2014-2846