CVE-2017-12477

9.8 criticalEPSS 68%

It was discovered that the bpserverd proprietary protocol in Unitrends Backup (UB) before 10.0.0, as invoked through xinetd, has an issue in which its authentication can be bypassed. A remote attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary commands with root privilege on the target system.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-287
Published: 2017-08-07
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

kaseya:unitrends_backup

References

https://support.unitrends.com/UnitrendsBackup/s/article/000005755
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43031/
https://support.unitrends.com/UnitrendsBackup/s/article/000005755
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43031/

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