CVE-2022-26501 vulnerability in Veeam Products
Published on March 17, 2022
Veeam Backup & Replication 10.x and 11.x has Incorrect Access Control (issue 1 of 2).
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This Veeam Backup & Replication Remote Code Execution Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. The Veeam Distribution Service in the Backup & Replication application allows unauthenticated users to access internal API functions. A remote attacker can send input to the internal API which may lead to uploading and executing of malicious code.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by January 3, 2023: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2022-26501 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors in an automatable fashion. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.
Weakness Type
Missing Authentication for Critical Function
The software does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.
Products Associated with CVE-2022-26501
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Exploit Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.