CVE-2017-13707 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in Axcient Replibit Backup Manager versions prior to 2017.08.04. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to gain root privileges by exploiting a misconfiguration that permits sudo execution of the 'vi' program, enabling modification of critical system files like /etc/passwd. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and severe impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2017.08.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:axcient:replibit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.