Vulnerabilites related to Array Networks - vAPV
CVE-2014-125121 (GCVE-0-2014-125121)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-31 14:52
Modified
2025-07-31 15:17
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CWE
Summary
Array Networks vAPV (version 8.3.2.17) and vxAG (version 9.2.0.34) appliances are affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability caused by a combination of hardcoded SSH credentials (or SSH private key) and insecure permissions on a startup script. The devices ship with a default SSH login or a hardcoded DSA private key, allowing an attacker to authenticate remotely with limited privileges.
Once authenticated, an attacker can overwrite the world-writable /ca/bin/monitor.sh script with arbitrary commands. Since this script is executed with elevated privileges through the backend binary, enabling the debug monitor via backend -c "debug monitor on" triggers execution of the attacker's payload as root. This allows full system compromise.
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Impacted products
Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
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► | Array Networks | vAPV |
Version: 8.3.2.17 |
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