Advisory Details

December 11th, 2024

Veritas Enterprise Vault MonitoringMiddleTier Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2024-53909
CVSS SCORE	8.0, AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AFFECTED VENDORS	Veritas
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Enterprise Vault
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Veritas Enterprise Vault. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the MonitoringMiddleTier service, which listens on TCP port 8071 by default. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in deserialization of untrusted data. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the service account.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Veritas has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/security/VTS24-014
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2024-07-24 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2024-12-11 - Coordinated public release of advisory 2024-12-11 - Advisory Updated
CREDIT	Sina Kheirkhah (@SinSinology) of Summoning Team (@SummoningTeam)

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