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.
References
Link Resource
https://support.unitrends.com/UnitrendsBackup/s/article/000005755 Vendor Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43031/ Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-07T15:00:00

Updated: 2017-10-25T09:57:01

Reserved: 2017-08-04T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2017-12477

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-08-07T15:29:00.207

Modified: 2021-12-16T18:48:50.197


Link: CVE-2017-12477

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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CWE