CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2024-40711 — Veeam Backup and Replication Deserialization Vulnerability
Critical
CVSS 9.8
CISA KEV
A deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability with a malicious payload can allow an unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE).
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS
- 9.8 (3.1)
- Published
- 2024-09-07
- CISA KEV
- Known exploited
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-502
Affected products
- veeam / veeam_backup_&_replication
Matched remediation archetype
Unsafe deserialization and object reconstruction
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Check exposure
- Inventory serialization formats accepted from requests, queues, caches, files, cookies, and cross-service messages.
- Trace whether untrusted input can select classes, types, callbacks, constructors, or object hooks during decoding.
- Identify signing, schema validation, trust-boundary, and compatibility settings for each decoder.
Remediate safely
- Replace native object deserialization with a data-only format and explicit schema validation.
- If replacement is not immediate, use a safe decoder with a minimal type allowlist and disable polymorphic or executable hooks.
- Update the affected library and add inert tests for unknown types, extra fields, malformed nesting, and unsigned data.
Authoritative sources
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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