Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 7, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-12477
CVE-2017-12477
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.
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References
2- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43031/nvdExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- support.unitrends.com/UnitrendsBackup/s/article/000005755nvdVendor Advisory
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