CVE-2017-12479
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 7, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 4, 2017
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
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References
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