CVE-2021-43040: An issue was discovered in Kaseya Unitrends Backup Appliance before 10.5.5. The privileged vaultServer could be leveraged to create arbitrary writable files…

PriorityP353high8.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

1.77%

75.3th percentile

An issue was discovered in Kaseya Unitrends Backup Appliance before 10.5.5. The privileged vaultServer could be leveraged to create arbitrary writable files, leading to privilege escalation.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
kaseya	unitrends_backup	>= 10.0 < 10.5.5	10.5.5

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.18.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.06.5MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

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