CVE record
CVE-2021-27877
Veritas Backup Exec Agent Improper Authentication Vulnerability
Veritas Backup Exec (BE) Agent contains an improper authentication vulnerability that could allow an attacker unauthorized access to the BE Agent via SHA authentication scheme.
CVE evidence
Known exploitation
Listed in CISA KEV
Absence from the fetched catalog does not establish that exploitation has not occurred.
Severity
unknown
No parseable CVSS vector returned
Affected packages
0
Supported package records returned by OSV. Vendor and product names are not used to infer matches.
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
Catalog record
- Vendor / project
- Veritas
- Product
- Backup Exec Agent
- Date added
- Apr 7, 2023
- CISA federal remediation due date
- Apr 28, 2023
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware campaign use
- Known
- CWE
- CWE-287
OSV package mapping
Affected open-source packages
OSV did not return a package mapping in the five supported ecosystems. RequestGuard does not infer package names from the CISA vendor or product fields.