What is CVE-2020-15518?

CVE-2020-15518 is a high-severity vulnerability in Veeam Availability Suite, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2020-07-03.

How severe is CVE-2020-15518?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Veeam Availability Suite

CVE-2020-15518

VeeamFSR.sys in Veeam Availability Suite before 10 and Veeam Backup & Replication before 10 has no device object DACL, which allows unprivileged users to achieve total control over filesystem I/O requests.

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

EPSS: 0.010 (59.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Veeam Veeam_availability_suite
Veeam Veeam_backup_\&_replication
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

References

cve@mitre.org (Technical Description, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-15518?: CVE-2020-15518 is a high-severity vulnerability in Veeam Availability Suite, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2020-07-03.
How severe is CVE-2020-15518?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.