| CVE ID | CVE-2021-44679 |
| CVSS SCORE | 9.8, AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| AFFECTED VENDORS |
Veritas |
| AFFECTED PRODUCTS |
Enterprise Vault |
| VULNERABILITY DETAILS |
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Veritas Enterprise Vault. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within EVTaskGuardian.exe. 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 Enterprise Vault Task Controller Service. |
| ADDITIONAL DETAILS |
Veritas has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS21-003 |
| DISCLOSURE TIMELINE |
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| CREDIT | Markus Wulftange (@mwulftange) |
