Cybersecurity Alerts

Veritas Backup Exec Agent File Access Vulnerability

Veritas Backup Exec (BE) Agent contains a file access vulnerability that could allow an attacker to specially craft input parameters on a data management protocol command to access files on the BE Agent machine.

Required Action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Weakness Classification

CWE-287

References

• https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/security/VTS21-001
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-27876