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CVE-2017-12477

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 68.22% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-08-07 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2017-12477
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
68.22%

Original NVD 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.