CVE-2017-12477
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...
- Published
- Aug 7, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- Aug 8, 2017
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HHigh · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 99.3%
- Model date
- Oct 13, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
modules/exploits/linux/misc/ueb9_bpserverd.rb
Metasploit Framework modulesDeclared conditions
- platform: Linux($.exploit_linux/misc/ueb9_bpserverd.platform)
- verification: check_declared($.exploit_linux/misc/ueb9_bpserverd.check)
Jared Arave · linux · Aug 8, 2017
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