An issue was discovered in Veritas Backup Exec before 21.2. It supports multiple authentication schemes: SHA authentication is one of these. This authentication scheme is no longer used in current versions of the product, but hadn't yet been disabled. An attacker could remotely exploit this scheme to gain unauthorized access to an Agent and execute privileged commands.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-14615 An issue was discovered in Veritas Backup Exec before 21.2. It supports multiple authentication schemes: SHA authentication is one of these. This authentication scheme is no longer used in current versions of the product, but hadn't yet been disabled. An attacker could remotely exploit this scheme to gain unauthorized access to an Agent and execute privileged commands.
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History

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Weaknesses CWE-287 NVD-CWE-noinfo
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Metrics kev

{'dateAdded': '2023-04-07'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'active', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-21T23:25:53.349Z

Reserved: 2021-03-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-27877

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T21:33:16.920Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-03-01T22:15:14.460

Modified: 2025-10-22T00:17:30.143

Link: CVE-2021-27877

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