Description
It was discovered that an issue in the session logic in Unitrends Backup (UB) before 10.0.0 allowed using the LOGDIR environment variable during a web session to elevate an existing low-privilege user to root privileges. A remote attacker with existing low-privilege credentials could then execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
Published: 2017-08-07
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: 13.5% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Kaseya Unitrends Backup
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T18:36:56.407Z

Reserved: 2017-08-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-12479

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-08-07T15:29:00.267

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-12479

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