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Veeam has released security updates to address a critical flaw impacting Service Provider Console (VSPC) that could pave the way for remote code execution on susceptible instances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-42448, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10.0. The company noted that the bug was identified during internal testing. "From the VSPC management agent machine, under the condition that the management agent is authorized on the server, it is possible to perform Remote Code Execution (RCE) on the VSPC server machine," Veeam said in an advisory. Another defect patched by Veeam relates to a vulnerability (CVE-2024-42449, CVSS score: 7.1) that could be abused to leak an NTLM hash of the VSPC server service account and delete files on the VSPC server machine. Both the identified vulnerabilities affect Veeam Service Provider Console 8.1.0.21377 and all earlier versions of 7 and 8 builds. They have been addressed in version 8.1.0.21999. Veeam furt...

Users of Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager are being urged to update to the latest version following the discovery of a critical security flaw that could permit an adversary to bypass authentication protections. Tracked as  CVE-2024-29849  (CVSS score: 9.8), the  vulnerability  could allow an unauthenticated attacker to log in to the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager web interface as any user. The company has also disclosed three other shortcomings impacting the same product - CVE-2024-29850  (CVSS score: 8.8), which allows account takeover via NTLM relay CVE-2024-29851  (CVSS score: 7.2), which allows a privileged user to steal NTLM hashes of a Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager service account if it's not configured to run as the default Local System account CVE-2024-29852  (CVSS score: 2.7), which allows a privileged user to read backup session logs All the flaws have been addressed in version 12.1.2.172. However, Veeam noted that deploying Veeam ...

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