CVE-2021-27877: Veritas Backup Exec Agent Improper Authentication Vulnerability
First published: Mon Mar 01 2021(Updated: )
An issue was discovered in Veritas Backup Exec before 21.2. It supports multiple authentication schemes: SHA authentication is one of these. This authentication scheme is no longer used in current versions of the product, but hadn't yet been disabled. An attacker could remotely exploit this scheme to gain unauthorized access to an Agent and execute privileged commands.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Veritas Backup Exec | <21.2 | |
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