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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
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CVE

CVE-2021-27877

8.2
CVSShigh
Exploitable remotely over the internet · no authentication required.
Description

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.

Attack Vector
Network
Privileges Req.
None
User Interaction
None
Updated Nov 10, 2026View on NVD →
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Veritas Backup Exec - Broken Authentication

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. References: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/veritas/beagent_sha_auth_rce.rb

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