VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2021-43037
The Unitrends Windows agent was vulnerable to DLL injection and binary planting due to insecure default permissions.
HIGH 7.8EPSS 0.50%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.50%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
An issue was discovered in Kaseya Unitrends Backup Appliance before 10.5.5. The Unitrends Windows agent was vulnerable to DLL injection and binary planting due to insecure default permissions. This allowed privilege escalation from an unprivileged user to SYSTEM.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.50% probability · 42th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-427
- Affected
- kaseya/unitrends backup
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://helpdesk.kaseya.com/hc/en-gb/articles/4412762258961Vendor Advisory
- https://www.cyberonesecurity.com/blog/exploiting-kaseya-unitrends-backup-appliance-part-1Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cyberonesecurity.com/blog/exploiting-kaseya-unitrends-backup-appliance-part-2Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://helpdesk.kaseya.com/hc/en-gb/articles/4412762258961Vendor Advisory
- https://www.cyberonesecurity.com/blog/exploiting-kaseya-unitrends-backup-appliance-part-1Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cyberonesecurity.com/blog/exploiting-kaseya-unitrends-backup-appliance-part-2Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.