Revisions

  • 1.0: November 5, 2019, initial release

Summary

There is an arbitrary command injection vulnerability that affects multiple Veritas products.  This vulnerability allows an unauthenicated remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root.

The following Veritas products are known to be affected.  Click the link below to see the product specific security advisory for each product:

No other Veritas products are believed to be affected by this issue.

This issue could result in:

  • The loss of data managed by the product.
  • The loss of confidentiality of data managed by the product.
  • The loss of data on other systems for which the product has stored credentials. The product encrypts these credentials, however an attacker would have access to the keys needed to decrypt them.
  • The installation of malware or crypto-mining software on the host system.

Other undesirable outcomes are also possible.

 

Questions

If you have any questions about any information in this security advisory please contact Veritas technical support.

 

Best Practices

As part of normal best practices, Veritas recommends that customers:

  • Restrict access of administration or management systems to privileged users.
  • Restrict remote access, if required, to trusted/authorized systems only.
  • Keep all operating systems and applications updated with the latest vendor patches.
  • Follow a multi-layered approach to security. Run both firewall and anti-malware applications, at a minimum, to provide multiple points of detection and protection to both inbound and outbound threats.
  • Deploy network and host-based intrusion detection systems to monitor network traffic for signs of anomalous or suspicious activity. This may aid in detection of attacks or malicious activity related to exploitation of latent vulnerabilities

 

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