Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-12479 - Unspecified vulnerability in Kaseya Unitrends Backup
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 8 |
Exploit-Db
| description | Unitrends UEB 9.1 - Privilege Escalation. CVE-2017-12479. Webapps exploit for PHP platform |
| id | EDB-ID:42959 |
| last seen | 2017-10-06 |
| modified | 2017-08-08 |
| published | 2017-08-08 |
| reporter | Exploit-DB |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/42959/ |
| title | Unitrends UEB 9.1 - Privilege Escalation |
Packetstorm
| data source | https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/144513/unitrendsueb91-escalate.txt |
| id | PACKETSTORM:144513 |
| last seen | 2017-10-08 |
| published | 2017-10-04 |
| reporter | Benny Husted |
| source | https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/144513/Unitrends-UEB-9.1-Privilege-Escalation.html |
| title | Unitrends UEB 9.1 Privilege Escalation |