Improper certificate validation in Veeam Backup and Recovery
Priority LOW 38CWE-295Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Spoofing
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-295.
Summary
An improper certificate validation vulnerability in TLS certificate validation allows an attacker on the same network to intercept sensitive credentials during restore operations.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00356 29th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-40714
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-rjwq-j7vv-9hw7
References
Advisory 1
More Veeam Backup & Replication vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-27107 Deserialization of untrusted data in Veeam Backup and Recovery KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2022-09844 Veeam Backup & Replication 10.x and 11.x has Incorrect Access Control (issue 1 of 2). KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2022-09843 Improper limitation of path names in Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5U3, 9.5U4,10.x, and… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2023-12256 Missing authentication in Veeam Backup & Replication KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2024-19623 Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager allows unauthenticated users to log in as any user to enterprise manager web interface. CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2025-16913 A vulnerability allowing remote code execution (RCE) on the Backup Server by an authenticated domain user CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
Sources
- CVE-2024-40714 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-40714 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-rjwq-j7vv-9hw7 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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