High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 7, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-12479
CVE-2017-12479
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.
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References
1- support.unitrends.com/UnitrendsBackup/s/article/000005757nvdVendor Advisory
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