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CVE-2017-12477

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 68.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-08-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

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.

Affected products

• Kaseya Unitrends Backup: before 10.0 — fixed in 10.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Kaseya Unitrends Backup 10.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://support.unitrends.com/UnitrendsBackup/s/article/000005755
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43031/
• https://support.unitrends.com/UnitrendsBackup/s/article/000005755
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43031/

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