CVE-2014-2846: Westerndigital Arkeia Virtual Appliance Firmware

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Westerndigital Arkeia Virtual Appliance Firmware: up to and including 10.2.7

Published 2014-04-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.