Advisory Details

December 23rd, 2021

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

CVE ID	CVE-2021-44680
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 EVMonitoring.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 Admin 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	2021-08-13 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2021-12-23 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Markus Wulftange (@mwulftange)

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