CVE-2017-12477

CRITICAL

Unitrends UEB bpserverd authentication bypass RCE

Title source: metasploit

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.

Exploits (3)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Metasploit · rubyremotelinux_x86
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43031
exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Jared Arave · pythonremotelinux
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42957
metasploit WORKING POC EXCELLENT
by Jared Arave, Cale Smith, Benny Husted · rubypoclinux
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/linux/misc/ueb9_bpserverd.rb

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.7601
EPSS Percentile 98.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-287
Status published
Products (1)
kaseya/unitrends_backup < 10.0
Published Aug 07, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026