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.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T18:36:56.407Z
Reserved: 2017-08-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-12479

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-08-07T15:29:00.267
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2017-12479

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