CVE-2017-12478

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-05-13. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
Weaponized
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 78%
  • Public exploit code is available (Metasploit, Exploit-DB, marked verified by Exploit-DB)
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 78%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Metasploit · Exploit-DB (verified)Exposed services: Not assessed

No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2017 — isolate the affected system (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) or retire the product.

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.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
80
EG Risk 80/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
The EG Score, 9.8 of 10.
Exploitation78% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability30% × 15%
EchelonGraph's default before algorithm v3.4: CISA had not published Automatable for this CVE.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (EG-KEV: weaponized) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact total (CVSS ≥ 9.0). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2017. Isolate the affected system within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) or retire the product.
EPSS PROB
78%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2017. Isolate the affected system within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) or retire the product.

Exploitation public PoC (EG-KEV: weaponized) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact total (CVSS ≥ 9.0). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

Published

August 7, 2017

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Oct 6, 2026
No fix on record since 2017.
generic

Unitrends UEB - HTTP API Remote Code Execution (Metasploit) - Linux remote Exploit

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45559/
generic

Unitrends UEB 9 - http api/storage Remote Root (Metasploit) - Linux_x86 remote Exploit

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43030/

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 3× in last 7d / 11× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 81 of 82 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 19 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 1 oldest row on record is not shown and was not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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  45. 2026-05-20 09:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7q5j-8w8v-g89m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  52. 2026-05-19 07:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7q5j-8w8v-g89m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  53. 2026-05-19 03:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7q5j-8w8v-g89m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  55. 2026-05-19 00:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7q5j-8w8v-g89m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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Publicly available exploits

(4 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 3 Exploit-DB entries). No fix is on record, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-45559✓ verified
    Published Oct 8, 2018

    Unitrends UEB - HTTP API Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/linux/http/ueb_api_rce✓ verified
    Published Oct 5, 2018

    Unitrends UEB http api remote code execution

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-43030✓ verified
    Published Oct 23, 2017

    Unitrends UEB 9 - http api/storage Remote Root (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-42958✓ verified
    Published Aug 8, 2017

    Unitrends UEB 9.1 - Authentication Bypass / Remote Command Execution

    Open source ↗

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2017-12478?
CVE-2017-12478 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 7, 2017. 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.
When was CVE-2017-12478 made public?
CVE-2017-12478 was made public on August 7, 2017: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, MITRE Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on August 7, 2017. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2017-12478 actively exploited?
CVE-2017-12478 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EchelonGraph's EG-KEV model places it in Tier 2 (Weaponized), which is not evidence of exploitation: a Metasploit module exists for it, and Exploit-DB marks a public exploit for it as verified. EchelonGraph does not test whether exploit code works. FIRST EPSS estimates a 78% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2017-12478?
CVE-2017-12478 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2017-12478?
No fix for CVE-2017-12478 has been recorded since its CVE record was published in 2017, and EchelonGraph holds no vendor advisory for it. Isolate the affected system (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) or retire the product.

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