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CVE-2017-12479

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 11.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-08-07 · updated 2026-06-17

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.

Affected products

• Kaseya Unitrends Backup: through 9.1

References

• https://support.unitrends.com/UnitrendsBackup/s/article/000005757
• https://support.unitrends.com/UnitrendsBackup/s/article/000005757

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