CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2022-26501 — Veeam Backup & Replication Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Critical
CVSS 9.8
CISA KEV
Veeam Backup & Replication 10.x and 11.x has Incorrect Access Control (issue 1 of 2).
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS
- 9.8 (3.1)
- Published
- 2022-03-17
- CISA KEV
- Known exploited
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-306
Affected products
- veeam / veeam_backup_&_replication
- veeam / veeam_backup_&_replication / 10.0.1.4854
- veeam / veeam_backup_&_replication / 11.0.1.1261
Matched remediation archetype
Authentication bypass and missing authentication
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Check exposure
- Map every affected endpoint and protocol path, including alternate ports, legacy routes, recovery flows, service accounts, and machine-to-machine access.
- Confirm which deployments enable the affected authentication mode and whether the interface is reachable from untrusted networks.
- Review session, token, credential, and proxy trust configuration without attempting account takeover.
Remediate safely
- Apply the supported fix and centralize fail-closed authentication before protected request handling.
- Remove default or embedded credentials, rotate affected secrets and sessions, and bind authentication decisions to the intended audience and channel.
- Add negative tests for alternate routes, malformed or absent credentials, recovery flows, and proxy-derived identity.
Authoritative sources
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