CVE-2017-12477

critical
Published 2017-08-07 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
9.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://support.unitrends.com/UnitrendsBackup/s/article/000005755

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
kaseyaunitrends_backup{"endExcluding":"10.0"}10.0

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.