CVE-2021-43033

critical

Description

An issue was discovered in Kaseya Unitrends Backup Appliance before 10.5.5. Multiple functions in the bpserverd daemon were vulnerable to arbitrary remote code execution as root. The vulnerability was caused by untrusted input (received by the server) being passed to system calls.

References

https://www.cyberonesecurity.com/blog/exploiting-kaseya-unitrends-backup-appliance-part-2

https://www.cyberonesecurity.com/blog/exploiting-kaseya-unitrends-backup-appliance-part-1

https://helpdesk.kaseya.com/hc/en-gb/articles/4412762258961

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-12-06

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.14221