VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-12477

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability68.22%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-08-07
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-287: Improper Authentication

Primary references