CVE-2017-12479

highpriority · attend · 49EPSS 0.118 · 96 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS
grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent
Exploitable?
Public exploit
1 exploit · functional
Likely / severe?
11.8% (96th) EPSS
CVSS 9 · high
Is it mine?
2 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
3 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.0
010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09highAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 10
v3.08.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9
v3.08.3highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-269USLLM-inferred
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exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

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affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

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also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

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sources

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cnnvdenisa_euvdnvdNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2017-08-07modified 2026-06-17
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references (3)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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