Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-7281

RCE

Title: Unitrends Enterprise Backup RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-7281.

CWE Category CWE-434

Published Date Apr 12, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

7.41%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-7281: An issue was discovered in Unitrends Enterprise Backup before 9.1.2. A lack of sanitization of user input in the createReportName and saveReport functions in recoveryconsole/bpl/reports.php allows for an authenticated user to create a randomly named file on disk with a user-controlled extension, contents, and path, leading to remote code execution, aka Unrestricted File Upload.

Impacted Vendors

unitrends 1

Reference Links

https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/research/remote-code-execution-bug-hunting-chapter-1/ https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/research/remote-code-execution-bug-hunting-chapter-1/

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns