CVE-2017-13707: Axcient Replibit

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Privilege escalation in Replibit Backup Manager earlier than version 2017.08.04 allows attackers to gain root privileges via sudo command execution. The vi program can be accessed through sudo, in order to navigate the filesystem and modify a critical file such as /etc/passwd.

Affected products

• Axcient Replibit: before 2017.08.04 (fixed in 2017.08.04)

Published 2017-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.