Unitrends Enterprise Backup bpserverd Privilege Escalation
Posted on 28 November 2018
It was discovered that the Unitrends bpserverd proprietary protocol, as exposed via xinetd, has an issue in which its authentication can be bypassed. A remote attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary commands with root privilege on the target system. This is very similar to exploits/linux/misc/ueb9_bpserverd however it runs against the localhost by dropping a python script on the local file system. Unitrends stopped bpserverd from listening remotely on version 10.
