# CVE-2021-43037: An issue was discovered in Kaseya Unitrends Backup Appliance before 10.5.5.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-12-06 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://helpdesk.kaseya.com/hc/en-gb/articles/4412762258961
- https://www.cyberonesecurity.com/blog/exploiting-kaseya-unitrends-backup-appliance-part-1
- https://www.cyberonesecurity.com/blog/exploiting-kaseya-unitrends-backup-appliance-part-2

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