High severity · published Aug 7, 2017
CVE-2017-12479
It was discovered that an issue in the session logic in Unitrends Backup (UB) before 10.0.0 allowed using the LOGDIR environment variable during a web session to elevate an…
8.8
CVSS
11.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
It was discovered that an issue in the session logic in Unitrends Backup (UB) before 10.0.0 allowed using the LOGDIR environment variable during a web session to elevate an existing low-privilege user to root privileges. A remote attacker with existing low-privilege credentials could then execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)11.8% · higher than 96% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
UB
Unitrends Backup · Kaseya
through 9.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12479
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12479
Vendor Advisory
https://support.unitrends.com/UnitrendsBackup/s/article/000005757
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