Veeam patches multiple critical remote code execution flaws

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The company fixed a total of 18 flaws recently

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Data backup and cloud data management company Veeam said it released multiple patches which fix more than a dozen flaws impacting different products. In a security advisory published earlier this week, Veeam said that it fixed a total of 18 bugs, five of which were deemed critical in severity.

The first one is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability found in Veeam Backup & Replication. It is tracked as CVE-2024-40711 and carries a severity score of 9.8. The second and third flaw are found in Veeam ONE. CVE-2024-42024, with a severity score of 9.1, allows threat actors owning Agent service account credentials to run remote code execution.

CVE-2024-42019, on the other hand, has a slightly lower severity score (9.0), and allows threat actors to access the NTLM hash of the Veeam Reporter Service account.

Secure versions

Then there is a 9.9 severity bug in Veeam Service Provider Console, which grants low privileged attackers access to the NTLM hash of the service account on the server. This one is tracked as CVE-2024-38650. Finally, CVE-2024-39714, also a 9.9 flaw, is found in the same software, and grants low-privileged users the ability to upload arbitrary files.

Other 13 flaws are mostly high-severity, granting multi-factor authentication (MFA) bypass, privilege escalation, remote code execution (RCE), and more.

To ensure the security of their infrastructure, users are advised to update their software to the following versions:

  • Veeam Backup & Replication 12.2 (build 12.2.0.334)
  • Veeam Agent for Linux 6.2 (build 6.2.0.101)
  • Veeam ONE v12.2 (build 12.2.0.4093)
  • Veeam Service Provider Console v8.1 (build 8.1.0.21377)
  • Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV Plug-In v12.6.0.632
  • Veeam Backup for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Virtualization Plug-In v12.5.0.299

Via The Hacker News

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Sead is a seasoned freelance journalist based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He writes about IT (cloud, IoT, 5G, VPN) and cybersecurity (ransomware, data breaches, laws and regulations). In his career, spanning more than a decade, he’s written for numerous media outlets, including Al Jazeera Balkans. He’s also held several modules on content writing for Represent Communications.