{"id":"CVE-2017-7279","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-7279","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T01:46:20.349Z","title":"An unprivileged user of the Unitrends Enterprise Backup before 9.0.0 web server can escalate to root privileges by modifying the \"token\" cookie issued at login.","description":"An unprivileged user of the Unitrends Enterprise Backup before 9.0.0 web server can escalate to root privileges by modifying the \"token\" cookie issued at login.","published":"2017-04-12T22:59:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:24:00.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-565"],"affected":["unitrends/enterprise backup"],"epss":{"score":0.04394,"percentile":0.91264,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-09-21","score":0.03357,"percentile":0.88183},{"date":"2026-09-22","score":0.04394,"percentile":0.90873}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.39%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/research/remote-code-execution-bug-hunting-chapter-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/research/remote-code-execution-bug-hunting-chapter-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7279","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}