CVE-2017-12478: Kaseya Unitrends Backup

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 78.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It was discovered that the api/storage web interface in Unitrends Backup (UB) before 10.0.0 has an issue in which one of its input parameters was not validated. A remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands with root privilege on the target system.

Affected products

• Kaseya Unitrends Backup: before 10.0 (fixed in 10.0)

Published 2017-08-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.