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.

Related CVEs

CVE-2017-8023

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-2mv3-6453-384c

Published

May 14, 2022 1:13 AM

Last Modified

May 14, 2022 1:13 AM

CVSS Score

9.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: August 31, 2025 6:33 AM

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