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CVE-2024-42455

A vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication allows a low-privileged user to connect to remoting services and exploit insecure deserialization by sending a serialized temporary file collection.

HIGH 8.1EPSS 15.8%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 15.8%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

A vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication allows a low-privileged user to connect to remoting services and exploit insecure deserialization by sending a serialized temporary file collection. This exploit allows the attacker to delete any file on the system with service account privileges. The vulnerability is caused by an insufficient blacklist during the deserialization process.

CVSS 3.1
8.1 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS
15.78% probability · 97th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-306
Affected
veeam/veeam backup \& replication
Source
support@hackerone.com
EPSS trend
0%10%20%3 November 2026: 15.78%3 November 20263 November 2026

EPSS 15.8% since 3 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.