cve-2021-27878 (1)

11029684500?profile=RESIZE_400xThe US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on 07 April 2023 added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild.  This includes three high-severity flaws in the Veritas Backup Exec Agent software (CVE-2021-27876, CVE-2021-27877, and CVE-2021-27878) that could lead to the execution of privileged commands on the underlying system.  The flaws were fixed in a patch released by Veritas in March 2021.