Is CVE-2020-15518 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2020-15518 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2020-15518?

CVE-2020-15518 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2020-15518?

CVE-2020-15518 has an EPSS score of 0.99% (58th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2020-15518?

Upgrade veeam availability suite to 10.0 or later. Fixes are available for 2 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2020-15518

HIGH

8.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

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.

CWE-862Missing Authorization

How to fix

Remediation Available

veeam availability suiteNVD

Affected:< 10.0Fixed in:10.0CVE-2020-15518derived from NVD

veeam backup \& replicationNVD

Affected:< 10.0Fixed in:10.0CVE-2020-15518derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

0.99%probability of exploitation in 30 days

58thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 58% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit1

zwclose.github.io

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2021-39226	Critical	9.8	100%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2022-0543	Critical	10.0	100%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2021-21978	Critical	9.8	99%	-	Fix
CVE-2023-52163	High	8.8	96%	KEV	-
CVE-2022-1329	High	8.8	93%	-	-
CVE-2023-6875	Critical	9.8	90%	-	-

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.