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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-03-01T21:49:36

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

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

Link: CVE-2021-27877

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2022-09-27T20:15:04.043

Link: CVE-2021-27877

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