An issue was discovered in Veritas Backup Exec before 21.2. The communication between a client and an Agent requires successful authentication, which is typically completed over a secure TLS communication. However, due to a vulnerability in the SHA Authentication scheme, an attacker is able to gain unauthorized access and complete the authentication process. Subsequently, the client can execute data management protocol commands on the authenticated connection. The attacker could use one of these commands to execute an arbitrary command on the system using system privileges.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-03-01T21:49:24

Updated: 2024-08-03T21:33:16.375Z

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

Link: CVE-2021-27878

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-03-01T22:15:14.537

Modified: 2022-09-27T20:15:25.133

Link: CVE-2021-27878

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