CVE-2017-8023: Dell Emc Networker

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 5.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Dell Emc Networker: from 8.2.0.0, before 8.2.4.11 (fixed in 8.2.4.11); from 9.0.0.0, up to and including 9.0.1.9; from 9.1.0.0, before 9.1.1.5 (fixed in 9.1.1.5); from 9.2.0.0, before 9.2.1.0 (fixed in 9.2.1.0)

Published 2019-04-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.