CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-43040
High (8.8) in kaseya unitrends backup. EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An issue was discovered in Kaseya Unitrends Backup Appliance before 10.5.5. The privileged vaultServer could be leveraged to create arbitrary writable files, leading to privilege escalation.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 78% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- kaseya:unitrends_backup
References
- https://helpdesk.kaseya.com/hc/en-gb/articles/4412762258961
- https://www.cyberonesecurity.com/blog/exploiting-kaseya-unitrends-backup-appliance-part-1
- https://www.cyberonesecurity.com/blog/exploiting-kaseya-unitrends-backup-appliance-part-2
- https://helpdesk.kaseya.com/hc/en-gb/articles/4412762258961
- https://www.cyberonesecurity.com/blog/exploiting-kaseya-unitrends-backup-appliance-part-1