Vulnerability · Published Dec 6, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-44681
Critical 9.8
In plain English
A critical-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.9% (higher than 79% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
An issue (5 of 6) was discovered in Veritas Enterprise Vault through 14.1.2. On start-up, the Enterprise Vault application starts several services that listen on random .NET Remoting TCP ports for possible commands from client applications. These TCP services can be exploited due to deserialization behavior that is inherent to the .NET Remoting service. A malicious attacker can exploit both TCP remoting services and local IPC services on the Enterprise Vault Server. This vulnerability is mitigated by properly configuring the servers and firewall as described in the vendor's security alert for this vulnerability (VTS21-003, ZDI-CAN-14080).
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS21-003 x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1594/ x_refsource_MISC