CVE-2017-12477 (GCVE-0-2017-12477)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-08-07 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 18:36
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Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2017-08-07 00:00
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