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CVE-2017-7281

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-04-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-434

Description

An issue was discovered in Unitrends Enterprise Backup before 9.1.2. A lack of sanitization of user input in the createReportName and saveReport functions in recoveryconsole/bpl/reports.php allows for an authenticated user to create a randomly named file on disk with a user-controlled extension, contents, and path, leading to remote code execution, aka Unrestricted File Upload.

Affected products

• Unitrends Enterprise Backup: through 9.1.1

References

• https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/research/remote-code-execution-bug-hunting-chapter-1/
• https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/research/remote-code-execution-bug-hunting-chapter-1/

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