CVE-2022-26503

CVE-2022-26503 affects Veeam Agent for Windows (2.x–5.x). Deserialization of untrusted data allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with LOCAL SYSTEM privileges. Root cause: improper handling of serialized data in the Veeam Agent service over the Windows port (per Red Hat/NVD entries). ...

Veeam Agent for Windows 代码问题漏洞

Veeam Agent for Windows is a data protection and disaster recovery solution for physical and virtual machines from Veeam Switzerland. A security vulnerability exists in Veeam Agent for Windows 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 3.0.2, 4.x, and 5.x that allows local users to run arbitrary code with local system...

The vulnerability of the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows data backup tool, related to deserialization mechanism flaws, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows data backup tool is related to deficiencies in the deserialization mechanism. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending specially crafted data through the TCP port 9395...

PT-2022-08: Deserialization of untrusted data in Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

The vulnerability was identified in Veeam Agent for Windows versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 3.0.2, 4.0, and 5.0. The discovered vulnerability allows local users to run arbitrary code with LOCAL SYSTEM privileges. Vulnerability status: Confirmed by vendor Date of vulnerability remediation: 12.03.2022...

CVE-2022-26503

Challenge Vulnerability CVE-2022-26503 in Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows allows local privilege escalation. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with LOCAL SYSTEM privileges. Severity : High CVSS v3 score : 7.8 Cause Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windo...

Unable to use Veeam Agent for IBM AIX after LIBPATH variable has been changed

Article Applicability This article is relevant only to Veeam Agent for IBM AIX 13.0.2.2108 and lower. Challenge In IBM AIX, it is possible to change the LIBPATH variable globally. However, doing so overrides the library loader domain configuration for all the applications running with system...

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 5.0 Can’t Be Started or Installed After Upgrade to Windows 11

Challenge After upgrading to Windows 11, the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows service may fail to start. The following errors can be found in C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Endpoint\Svc.VeeamEndpointBackup.log: Error Failed to start service. Error Error occurred during LocalDB instance startup: SQL Server...

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows can't be auto-updated to the latest version on Windows 7, 2008 R2, 2012

Challenge Veeam Agent fails to run auto-update and download the latest version on the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Cause Veeam Agent utilizes BITS to download the latest versions from...

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Installation fails with "Error 1920.Service Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows (VeeamEndpointBackupSvc) failed to start" on Windows Server 2012 R2/8.1

Veeam Support Knowledge Base answer to: Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Installation fails with "Error 1920.Service Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows VeeamEndpointBackupSvc failed to start" on Windows Server 2012 R2/8.1...

Veeam Agent for Linux install on EOL CentOS fails with a repository error

Challenge When installing Veeam Agent for Linux on a version of CentOS that has reached End of Life, the install fails with messages similar to the following: CentOS 8: Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: No URLs in mirrorlist Copy CentOS 6...

Release Information for Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris 2.1

The latest version of Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris can be found here: https://www.veeam.com/oracle-solaris-agent-download.html This update supersedes Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris 2.0. Requirements Upgrade from v1 is not supported, clean installation is required. Upgrade from Veeam Agent for...

Release Information for Veeam Agent for IBM AIX 2.0

The latest version of Veeam Agent for IBM AIX is available: https://www.veeam.com/ibm-aix-agent-download.html Requirements Upgrade from v1 is not supported, clean installation is required. Please follow this instruction to install Veeam Agent for IBM AIX. After installing, your build number will ...

Online-only files in OneDrive folder not backed up by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Challenge A restore point created by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows appears to be missing files from a user's OneDrive folder. Upon further investigation, it is determined that Files On-Demand was enabled, and the missing files were in an Online-only state at the time of backup. Cause As a...

Veeam Agent for Linux - Expired Sectigo RootCA Certificates

Challenge Veeam Agent for Linux connecting to a Cloud Repository with a seemingly valid Cloud certificate fails with "certificate has expired". Cause On May 30th of 2020, Sectigo had an expired Root CA that will not be updated due to the age of the certificate...

Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris Skips Hidden ZFS Snapshots

Challenge Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris does not back up hidden ZFS snapshots. Cause Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris cannot back up hidden ZFS snapshots that are explicitly specified as a source for backup. This is a by-design limitation from Oracle. By default, the .zfs directory is not visible...

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows: How to Setup Exclusion and Inclusion Masks

Resources Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Standalone: Use Filters to Define File-Level Backup Scope Veeam Agent Management: Using Filters in Backup Jobs for Windows Computers If this KB article did not resolve your issue or you need further assistance with Veeam software, please create a Veeam...

Release Information for Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris 2.0

Requirements Upgrade from v1 is not supported, clean installation is required. Upgrade from Veeam Agent for Solaris 2.0 RTM build 2.0.0.123 is possible. Please confirm that you are running version 2.0.0.123 or later prior to upgrading. You can check this using veeamconfig --version in Oracle...

How to keep OST files in Veeam Agent backup

Challenge When you create a backup using Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows , Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS excludes certain files like deleted, temporary, paging or OST files from the backup scope. Cause Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows uses Microsoft VSS for backup operations...

How to configure Veeam Agent with Work or School Account

Article Applicability This article concerns a feature only available in Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 5 and older. The option to backup to OneDrive was deprecated in Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 6. As an alternative, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 6 has introduced an Object Storage...

How to Limit Parallel Disk Processing in Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Purpose This article documents how to disable or limit parallel disk processing in Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows. Solution The following registry values can used to control parallel disk processing on the machine where Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is installed: To disable parallel disk...